Chapter 24. Someone Special

"So Alfred? Tell me everything." Moses asked, leaning against the wall.

"Demy sent for me urgently before breakfast... I knew something very bad had happened because Demy is not a person who acts on impulse. If she was calling... Well, I came immediately. Afhany was bleeding, lying in the kitchen. She had stuck a knife in her belly, and blood was gushing out. She was crying and telling me to stay away from her. She didn't want me to take care of her and try to save her and the child. She said that I should have let her die at the first opportunity, and I understood that she was talking about when you brought her from the desert. I could only look at her clothes, where the blood stain was getting bigger by the minute. I needed the help of the guards to take her to her room. I ordered them to restrain her hands so that I could examine her, and even with her struggling, I managed to lift her nightgown. The guards had left me alone with her. No one could bear t