Chapter Thirty-eight: Torture It!

Sadness clouded Brient as he glanced at Helia. She sat next to him on a bench in the park they had seen Rendall last. Since Rendall had gone missing, they made it a point of duty to visit the park every evening after work, hoping to find Rendall around, but it had been a week, yet Rendall was nowhere to be found.

"It has been quite lonely without Rendall and Selene around," Brient pointed out sadly and Helia sighed. Selene had been sent on a business trip. Before she left, Brient and Helia had told her that Rendall had left for his hometown because of an emergency and luckily, she bought it.

"Do you think lying to Helia was nice," Brient continued, trying to initiate a conversation. "I feel bad about it."

Brient heaved a sigh of frustration as he saw that Helia was in her sad world and wasn't willing to have a conversation.

"Don't you think we're not working hard enough to find Rendall?"

"I don't think so. Since Dawn broke, you've been asking around the neighborhood for him, while I'v