The rain had stopped drizzling when Roland stepped out of the house, clutching his phone tightly in his right hand.
It was close but he finally made it. He saved his father and little sister, and also their home from burning down. But even now, still, there was this tightness in his chest.
This wasn’t an attempt on his life. This time the attack was directed at his family. The same family he had desired to return to for a long time. The same people he'd missed for years. The people he'd desperately wanted back in his life. Now his return was putting them in harm's way.
Many years back, he was a nuisance to his family, a pain that cleaved to their bones, and for that, his mother had to suffer the consequences.
She died because of him and after all these many years, he's returned yet ag
