Cole
Silence fell between us, and I waited, unsure of what the next move was.
“Let me show you to your room,” Ralphal then said, and I frowned. I hadn’t been given a room the last time. The last time I had been here, I slept on the cot in the study that had been assigned to me. Clearly, this was something else. Ralphal led me to a part of the mansion I knew well.
“Are you serious right now?” I asked him when he stopped in front of a door. One I knew all too well.
“When you left, he had it cleaned up. He was expecting you,” he told me, and I sighed. He then handed over a key before he walked away. I unlocked the door, and I was expecting it to be exactly the same. It wasn’t, but it was still my room. When Albert had picked me up off the streets all those years ago, I had stayed with t
