Chapter 28: The plan

There was a pregnant silence between Sebastian and Carol as they walked side by side back to the house. Carol did not know what to say or how to broach the topic of what she had seen with Sebastian. After all, he yelled at her for trying to talk about matters that were not this delicate, so she could just imagine if she started to talk about this one. A sudden thought came to her. What if she was mistaken and he did not notice or know that something was going on with his uncle as she had thought? Was she supposed to keep it to herself? When they got into the house, she was about to tell Sebastian that she was going up to her room when he spoke first.

“Can we talk, Carol?” He asked, sounding as weary as Mr. James had looked.

“Of course, we can. What is the matter?” Carol asked, as though she did not know what the matter was.

“It’s about my uncle. I know you saw the blood he coughed up when he had the coughing fit earlier.”