Chapter 30: Signorino  

Felix POV:

She's dead. She's been dead for over twelve years.

I couldn't move. My whole body had locked somewhere between the word and the memory it dragged up, a voice that shouldn't anymore, yet that same tender voice was reaching through a speaker that had no right to know how my mother sounds like.

"Felix."

I didn't answer. I couldn't find the part of me that knew how.

Hands closed on my shoulders and shook me, hard

"Felix. Snap out of it."

Something in me came back online all at once, ro