YEAR AGO,

When De Villiers was ten, he encountered a situation that trembled his soul for weeks until the fear got suppressed over time.

It perturbed him to the core only to know in future that his fright was never irrational.

They were playing hide and seek and he... hid in Valencia’s special garden.

No one except the family was allowed there, that place was supposedly the heart of the Alroy bloodline.

Knowing it was forbidden yet he decided to hide there, out of joy, obviously.

And then he saw them.

The couple everyone admired, everyone looked up to, another side of them…

Which he shouldn't have.

With glistening tears,...