Chapter 34 - Honor doesn’t live in this world.

Alessia

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I remembered.

The memory didn't come back in a gentle wave, it hit me like a wrecking ball. The shame, the pain, the smell of the room, the sound of the laughter,.all of it. Even the parts I didn't want to remember. Every dirty, terrifying second.

Even the parts I didn't deserve to remember.

I was standing there, outside, surrounded by the cold, damp silence of the cemetery. I wore a heavy black dress, feeling the material scratch against my skin. My head was still tightly bandaged, the throbbing a dull ache now. My ribs were taped up. My knee was stiff, messed up from the accident. My shoulder felt swollen and heavy. My heart wasn't just broken, it felt hollowed out.

My tears were gone. They had dried up from crying too much.

With difficulty, I slowly lowered myself down to the cold grass. I placed my mother's favourite flowers, peonies, on her grave. They were heavy and pink, smelling like the last bit of summer. She was gone. Really gone.

I never got the ch