Chapter Forty One: Denial, First Stage of Grief

A professional would say that the denial stage is when someone is having a hard time acknowledging that the relationship is over. It was a common defense mechanism used to help numb the intensity of the pain.

Zoey's mind kept asking her on how the bloody hell she fell for Dionysus' deception. Zoey criticized her heart over and over again. She can't utterly believe the amount of pain she was feeling right now. She can't understand how love could be all butterflies for one minute, then become sheer suffering the next second.

Despite being hostile to each other for the past few years, Zoey embraced her older sister's body tightly. Zoey knew that, that was her hurting soul needed right now. Someone to hug her and remind her that she is worth everything in the world. And, that she is not someone who can be thrown away so easily. She wanted the kind of embrace that would soothe the pain in her heart even just a little bit.

Zara was quite stunned, especially when Zoey's soaking wet clothe