204. Guns

Alexander woke up to an empty bed the next day, the only evidence he shared a bed with Alice was the messy bed sheet from where she slept the previous night.

Last night, he lay down in bed at the side of his bed deep in thought. He turned to look at her severally and made an attempt to talk to her or even reach out to her dozens of times but give up as quickly as the idea presented itself. He never got to propose to her like he planned and he never got to see that happiness he was craving from her. That night they slept away from each other, their backs facing each other with heavy hearts. He stayed in bed for some few minutes to await her arrival but she was still a no show after about thirty minutes of wait. His heart panicked and he felt chills all over his body when he remembered that he didn’t given her some vital informations of Ken Li. This wasn’t Ken Li’s first attempt at making an escape from his prison cells but only knew of this because he succeeded. He tried it several tim