Chapter 105 - Lost

Eleanor's P.O.V

Silence.

There was dead silence in the carriage. As I helplessly stared at him but he preferred staring outside.

I couldn't help but feel a sense of unease wash over me. I had expected conversation, blaming, being angry anything but this uncomfortable silence.

I took a deep breath, trying to steady my nerves, and spoke up. "Daniel?" It wasn't my lips that called out for me but my very guilty soul.

He was hurt. And, somewhere deep down I knew the reason.

He turned to look at me, his eyes filled with a mixture of sadness and frustration. "Don't Eleanor. I'm not thinking straight, right now. And, I don't want our relationship to take a worse turn that it already has taken. So, please. Let me be right now."

His eyes were burning or maybe it was his soul that was burning behind that glossy glass frame. I swallowed a lump in my throat as I nodded and hung my head low, not being able to find words to contradict.

Words to ask him what was running behind his head.

Words