An Enlightened Man by Gary W. Hixon

Author:Gary W. Hixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spiritual, turbulent, mystery, thrilling, Anglo-Saxon, religion, conspiracy, atheist
Publisher: 9781789820966
Published: 2019-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

What he wanted was an address; a student’s address, which Di was reluctant to give him since it was against university policy to divulge personal details to anyone. However, she knew that her reluctance was futile, as whatever Thomas Bass asked her to do, she always did it. As soon as she did, he would be off on his feet without so much as a goodbye or ‘see you later’.

Therefore, Thomas found himself sitting in his car on Charlotte’s street of terraced houses that were much like his own; two or three doors down from where she lived with her father when she was not staying on campus. The family home that her mother had walked out on when she was ten leaving behind just the two of them. With his arms leant over the steering wheel and Sinatra crooning, he watched intently for any signs of activity at the house; a glimpse of Charlotte and perhaps an explanation as to why she hadn’t attended his lecture on what had been an important day, after a lengthy absence. As it was, he was quite pleased that she’d missed it. It didn’t change the fact that at the precise moment when he needed to see her, she was no-where to be seen.

Her nonappearance, after weeks of unanswered text messages, suggested that something had happened to her. Not physically - he knew that he would have heard about it - but in an emotional sense, as though she felt guilty somehow for everything that had gone on, or fearful to contact him now that he was free to be with her openly. Thomas wondered what turmoil she must have been going through since the news of his wife’s suicide filtered down to her through the sponge of university gossip. His attitude towards the girl drifted regularly between anger to sympathy, that in some way she’d found herself embroiled in events that were utterly beyond her control. Something ghastly and shocking had come about directly because of the love and affection that had existed between the two of them, and Charlotte was obviously struggling to come to terms with it.

That was the only explanation Thomas could muster, and therefore why he knew that he must see her again. He was an intelligent man, of course, and the possibility that she’d simply moved on to someone else and that everything that had occurred in Thomas’s life simply didn’t matter to her, figured in his rationale, but in the final analysis – when he stopped his mind and concentrated it on the times they’d been alone, the words that had passed between them, the look in her eyes – he knew that someone like Charlotte could not easily move on from a feeling, a bond, between the two of them that, in Thomas’s opinion, transcended the age difference, people’s opinions, and any other problem that had or may yet pronounce itself.

A while back Thomas had tried to convince himself that he was not utterly

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