Chapter 39
At my words, my family stared at me, dumbfounded.
My mother’s eyes turned red, and she clamped both hands over her mouth. The tears that had been welling up finally burst forth, streaming down her face like a waterfall.
Her wailing set off a chain reaction—my father and Aaron’s eyes also reddened.
Instead of crying himself, my father simply patted my mother’s back, clenching his lips tightly before finally speaking.
“...Never. Never do that again.
That day... The day I came to find you... Do you have any idea what I felt when I saw you lying on the ground?”
He was trying his best to stay composed, but by the end, his voice was shaking.
Lying on the ground...
So he had come to the clock tower himself to retrieve me.
It must have been quite the shock.
“...I’m sorry.”
“If I ask you why, will you tell me?”