Chapter 51 - Lion’s Den

Austin

The year that Sebastian passed away was a blurry one. I was hospitalized and mostly drugged for a week, the nurses told me. A cracked rib, lacerations, and so many stitches left me bed-bound right after the ordeal.

When I went home, all traces of my brother were nowhere to be seen at the mansion. It’s like he was never even there in the first place. His room was emptied and locked. No pictures, all his belongings were just suddenly gone.

Father and Mother were never the same again.

If before they were nonchalant at best towards me, after Seb we were three strangers occupying the same house. They didn’t have to tell me that they blamed me for being the sole survivor of the kidnapping.

Days, weeks even months went by without any conversation. They refused to look at me.