2 Farewell (2/2)

Even then he couldn't find the inner peace he yearned, thus he chose to travel around the world in search for answers. Soon he withdrew from the company and started voyage.

He visited numerous monasteries, temples, abbeys and what not in search of inner peace; he even practiced various meditation and yoga but all his efforts were in vain.

After a few years of adventure, he still failed to find answers but Alistair somehow managed to calm himself and enjoyed experiencing many different and fascinating things. His journey wasn't entirely a useless; Alistair managed to control his bloodthirst, his managed to fortified his mind using the various experiences he went through.

And now he was sitting on the bench in a remote town. He's here to enjoy it's peaceful yet beautiful sceneries without many disturbances. As for his attire, it was because he did not want to be identified by others. So he chose a comfortable casual dress.

He was too lazy to care about his appearance as Alistair was truly relaxing and appreciating the solitude and serenity of this town.

Opposite to the bench across the road an old lady was selling few local sweets with her granddaughter. The small kid was around 10 and ran around with a small basket of full sweets.

When the child saw Alistair looking at her, she mistook him for a potential customer and quickly ran towards him to sell the sweet. Alistair noticed the small kid running towards him so he just nodded with a smile.

But at the same time a speeding truck came down the lane and the driver seemed to have lost his control. Alistair realized that the truck would most probably run over the kid and thus he instantaneously dived forward to save her.

Though he saved the kid; Alistair landed himself in a bloody mess because as he recklessly dived to save the girl he got hit by the speeding truck. Everything happened so quickly that even Alistair with super human strength couldn't escape and soon realized that he was marching towards the inevitable end, the death.

Alistair turned his head and saw the kid crying while repeatedly apologizing to him.

'What a sensible kid.'

He thought and a familiar yet distant warm current welled up inside when he heard the old women

”Sir Stay with us don't loss the consciousness; please don't die on us sir the ambulance is on the way.”

Only at this moment did it dawn to him, what he really yearned all along was this warm feeling that he had lost long ago. He wanted a family, few true friends, comrades and brothers. He shunned himself from the light of the world for far too long that he lost even the basic touch of warm.

'So the world's top businessman and the most ruthless man is this stupid'

Alistair was lamenting over his stupidity for not figuring it out sooner. He even felt like banging his head into the wall, for travelling all over world in search of love. But at the same time, he really wanted to thank this little girl and the old lady for helping him find the answer; at least he could die with an answer.

'Whatever at least I could see my mom and dad, ho yea! that old man too' then he died in the ambulance.