Maggie turned back. “Get a move on!” she said to me.
I stepped out of the car and obediently followed her. A few seconds later the main door of the castle opened and Mr. Axe, a man small in stature, came out and shook my hand.
“So you’re Gabriel,” he said.
I inwardly struggled to be self-assured and answered, “Yes.”
Maggie, Mrs. Axe and I then entered the mansion. Mr. Axe closed the huge door behind me. I walked across the massive foyer and for the first time in my life I knew that I would challenge and fight the memories that sometimes made me feel I was the loneliest person on earth.