Taking Control!

Alfie stood in stunned silence, his mind a whirl of confusion and disbelief. The weight of the events around him seemed to press down, suffocating him. Reggie was dead. His own flesh and blood, killed without hesitation. And now, here he was, standing before Harry, the man who had just taken everything from him, yet now seemed to offer him a chance to leave.

Harry, on the other hand, was anything but frozen in shock. His calm demeanor and composed posture betrayed no trace of the violence he had just unleashed. He looked at Alfie with something that could almost be described as pity, but there was no warmth in his eyes, just an unsettling calm.

"Go back now. Leave. Go," Harry said, his voice soft, almost like an order but veiled in the gentlest of tones.

Alfie blinked in disbelief. "You're… you're going to let me go?" His words were slow, incredulous, as if testing the sincerity of the offer.