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A New Life Chapter Six: Being Alone
Things start to slow down for Alison, and pieces fall into place.
It took a couple of months for things to die down completely. Henry filled my texts and calls the first week, blaming me for his apparent ‘demotion’ as he put it, as he was taken off his regular patrol and put somewhere else.
Then, after I blocked him, he started to come by unannounced, never as far as coming inside or approaching me, but I always saw his car driving by my workplace or a house I was trying to sell. It would roll by or stay parked until I noticed, then speed off.
Alexander often asked if I wanted him to take care of it, but I knew it would die down. Henry was just mad, and this was his way of venting.
Finally, it took me storming over to his house to get things settled.
I told him it was over, and no matter how much ‘space’ he would give me or ‘attention’ he wanted to get, I wasn’t coming back to him.
It took a few more days to get through to him, but eventually, the stalking stopped. I hoped that he had found something new to fill his time. I hoped it wasn’t someone else as I didn’t want Henry to fool someone else with his pretense of being a nice guy and then turn on them the way he did with me.
