Alpha Elihas

Coughing vigorously as I watched my granddaughter Lillian, walking away from my cell, my entire body shuddered. 

Her shoulders were shaking as she walked. She was sobbing and it was making my heart ache even more than it already was.

Poor girl. She must be feeling so scared and helpless. 

My mind wandered to over thirteen years ago, to the night my son Duncan had murdered his wife in cold blood and five-year old Lillian had witnessed it.

FLASHBACKS – OVER THIRTEEN YEARS AGO

It was the deep of the night. I had not been able to sleep so I was leisurely moving about the house when I...