Yes Yes I'm alive, shocking, I know.
I don't really have any excuse for leaving any of my books on a cliffhanger, its preposterous but I had a really severe case of writers block and I didn't want to be publishing some half hearted attempt of a chapter, so I decided to leave it.
Again, I am sorry but from now on I think, hope, that updates are going to be a lot more regular!
Just give me time :)