CHAPTER 18

 (Ten year ago)

AIDEN

I remember that day like it was yesterday, the day my parents were brutally murdered with me listening to everything while hiding in a compartment on the floor. I remember sitting in there keeping very quiet like my mother told me to. I sat there for the longest time waiting for the silence. Their blood had gone from the dining room table and gathered on top of the carpet right on top of the compartment door.

It dripped right into my head, and I couldn’t move away as space was limited. I closed my eyes and let it drip on me. Mother told me to be still and not make any kind of noise and that was what I was doing. I had cried and by the time they were murdered, my tears had dried up. I remember I was covered in their blood by the time I got out from there.

But the blood was the last thing I cared about when I saw their bodies. Mother’s body laid on the table, I couldn’t even reco