Chapter 114

Carlton walked through the hallway of the hospital, his footsteps clacking against the floor in the somber silence that dwelt deeply in him. His face masked the grief that was storming heavily within him, as he struggled to keep himself from breaking down finally after coming to claim Alison's body.

Seeing her lie on the cold steel in the morgue covered in a white sheet, her face white and her body cold and lifeless, pain gnawed in his heart so much that he found it hard to breathe. His heart ached so much with a swelling knot that stuck to his throat, as he watched them close her back into the drawer.

‘It was definitely his fault that she ended up this way. He should have been more kind to her.

“We are sorry to inform you that Miss Alison Cooper has been an addict for a long time now. It just went wrong this time, and she overdosed,” those words, crumbled Carlton even more, with tears struggling to contain their pool in his heavy eyelids.

It was also that m