Chapter 43 - Day Break

“Father, can we talk?” Charlene knocked on her father’s study soon after she got herself ready for the day.

“Come in,” she opened the door after hearing her father’s approval. She could smell green tea lingering inside the place and realized that her father must have been awake since last night. Charlene went to the table and asked a servant to send a new set of tea so that she could brew them herself.

Charlene sat on the couch, watching her father scan through the documents that were towering on his desk and on the floor. “What happened to your shoulder, Father?” Alphonse looked up after he heard her daughter ask.

He raised his brows, got up from his seat, and sat on the table while still reading through the documents, “What do you mean?” he meaningfully asked her. Charlene stared him in the eyes, and she realized why her father suddenly asked.

Charlene chose not to answer that question. Her father must have had reasons why he’s letting a broken shoulder be left untreated. She would