Stud BoyChapter 8 Three at Carlton Manor
All thoughts I’d had of returning home were wiped from my mind, knowing Ralph needed our support at the Manor while his mother was recovering from a brain haemorrhage! Without Iris, it became clear, that as guest we would take our lead from Ralph; and although he was not yet seventeen Ralph responded surprisingly well in the absence of his dominant mother; making adult decisions. I saw the last remnants of Ralph’s boyhood fall away, revealing a young man determined to impress himself on the...