”hurt doesn’t even cover what I feel”

Elliot’s voice is calm, collected and slightly distant. His heart had sunk when his grandfather admitted to not knowing where his father ran off too. The golden buckskin with spots far too big on his right side shifted slightly listening to his grandfather talk.

Sylvia also stood, quietly trying to gather up the courage to talk

”you’re not thinking about leaving are you grandpa?” kind golden spheres flash with fear and longing ”I know we just met but please stay. I want to know my family, my mother is all I have and I know absolutely nothing about my father” his voice stills as his throat begin to choke up.

Hearing her son so desperate for Tarrant to stay completely breaks her

Tarrant’s attentive and kind words bring her out of the misery she is feeling by announcing that it is good to finally see the both of them. ”I’m afraid my dear boy is still in denial” the pretty pearlino pauses as her entire physic trembles and she is left barely standing with grief. ”midas passed away” her words barely came out above a whisper as tears instantly blurred her striking sea blues.

Elliot turned to face his mother with anger

His face crinkled and winced with pain while he gave it a shake of disapproval before turning to Tarrant but kept quiet and looked away ashamed. ”he left a couple times before, the first time he left because he thought he loved someone dearly but realized that I was his one and only” thinking of the fond memory Sylvia almost smiles ”then again while I was pregnant with Elliot for some business. He promised to return and did only” her gaze is torn away from looking at nothing to looking directly at his father ”over the years something inside of my love changed. The first time he left I feared of his death, the second I knew he’d be back but this time..” Sylvia now chokes and coughs as tears spill down her cheeks ”this time I know it’s for real”