Through the Ashes of Knowing

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Emon I have always been the kind of man who needed answers. When I was five, I took apart my father's watch just to understand how the ticking worked. I couldn't put it back together, but I stared at its pieces for hours, memorizing every gear, every spring, every secret held inside. That’s how it felt now, with Albert. Like I was watching the man I loved slowly unravel into pieces I didn’t understand. Pieces that no logic, no science, no normal explanation could touch. So I began to dig. The morning after I held him while he cried himself to sleep, I kissed his forehead and left the house while he was still breathing softly in bed. He looked fragile. Breakable. But he looked… safe. At peace. At least for a little while. I needed to keep it that way. I didn’t know where to begin ex

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