Your father deserves to be happy.

Adam found it too depressing to stay at the old house and called Chris asking him if it was possible to move the plans ahead of time. The old house was full of memories, and he needed a change; the relaxed aura was just to put the kids at ease, his heart was always in turmoil.

Chris didn’t even ask for a reason, he didn’t need to, he knew. He called Neil and asked him to liaise with Master before organizing the trip for his father. Adam set off three days later without any noise or fanfare. For those who enquired about Adam later, they were all told that he had gone to a health retreat for relaxation treatments. However, the rumour mill wasn’t kind.

All kinds of rumours were spun and spread faster than the wind; some told that Adam had some incurable disease and was undergoing palliative care whereas others told that he had been contracted some strange illness and couldn’t interact with the outside world as he had been placed under house arrest. No matter how ridiculous the rumours we