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XXVIII. Is It Over?
Rhea walked slowly into her house, the one place she had called home for almost a year, she had become so accustomed to the house and she had grown to love it, from the architecture to each and every memory she had made inside the house.
Her eyes were already swollen and aching as a result of the tears she had shed, she felt so heartbroken and sad.
On the drive home, she had begun to analyse everything, the wheels in her mind turning and she was trying to figure out a reason why Jason did it, if Jason did it?
She reasoned that he didn't even like his father, that he always seemed to abhor him. She didn't understand it then, but everything was becoming clearer and clearer to her.
After she had wiped her tears, she began to see sense in her brother's words. She still had no idea whether Jason had connived with his father or not, she wasn't even sure that he loved her, but if she gave him the divorce papers a
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