Fear of company

For hers, you will leave your father and mother

Photo by Rene Böhmer on Unsplash

At three and twenty-seven minutes the alarm sounded, two and a half hours ahead of schedule, he looked at the clock to confirm the time, and he saw in the shadow of the moonlight penetrating through a crack in the window, that someone was sitting in the chair at his right hand at the end of his bed.