Forrest novel Chapter 44

FORREST

WHEN I TURNED around, It was Alan, and I wanted to roll my eyes.

“It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it? Milady, young master.”

“Young master my arse. How old am I?”

“Good to know that you got your humor back. When I was at your age, I was still fighting bandits in the middle of the wilderness.” He walked back inside the ballroom hall.

“I don’t know what to do if it wasn’t for Alan, Mama. I wasn’t that affected when Papa left after what he did to us, but I thought I lost half of my soul when Father died. You are the only person left to keep me from living, then Alan came to my life. He became so important to me. He’d been there for me for the past years. I lived a life as normal as possible knowing that you were safe and sound, and Alan was there to guide me. I owe him my life, Mama.” I stood up from my seat and moved to kiss her on her forehead. “I love you so much.”

Moments later, the grand piano from the ballroom hall, echoed. I knew it was Alan. He loved to play the piano just like Father. I sauntered towards him when he started singing that had me slowed my pace until I stopped.

I knew the song he was singing. Back in the States, he used to hum it to me when I couldn’t sleep.

…I stepped into an avalanche. It covered up my soul.

And I knew exactly what he was doing—to send me a message, to haunt me, to taunt me that I had to pull my shits together. He knew my feelings about Megan. He’d seen how vulnerable I was when he sent my mother and Meadow to the airport, and he knew the reasons why I couldn’t be the one to send them back.

“Can you please stop the bloody up?”

He stopped, turning to face me. “I missed playing. What crawled up your arse, lad?”

“I know exactly what you’re doing.”

“Of course, you do, young master.” He gracefully tapped his fingers on the keys.

“I am not young anymore. Forrest is perfectly fine. Or is this your way of pissing me off?” Because you’re quite smashing of reminding me of my epic failure of getting my relationship back.

“You can’t stay here for long and have a peace of mind when your soul is somewhere,” he sang to the tune, and I couldn’t help but roll my eyes.

“I think you’re wrong. The last time I checked, I just redeemed my soul back. And I am perfectly fine.”

“You can’t say something that makes you feel better here, son. Figure something out, like you always did. You shouldn’t be staying here, feeling sorry for your arse when you have more important things to do. You may have more patience than anyone I know, but does she?”

My heart pounded. He was right, but again, Megan made it clear that we were over. I was a ticking time bomb, and I was not good for her.

“She doesn’t like me the way—”

We were interrupted by the commotion of manor’s employees. Alan was back on his feet with a gun pointing to the main door.

Fuck! “You broke our agreement!” I was already hurrying towards Francois who had his hands up.

“Forrest!” Mama’s voice stopped me, just a few steps away from punching Francois. As if to protect her from my father, I stepped back and wrapped my arms around her.

“I came alone and unarmed,” he stated. “And I am impressed. You have quite pretty tight security around here.”

“That’s the point of developing your own security system.” I snarled.