#Chapter 68 Claire

I didn’t know what to do or say. I was just lost and alone in Candido’s office. I looked around, remembering most of the moments I had spent in here, stealing a bit of his time for myself.

Could I stay in this house?

Could I stay at his side when he found this woman he spoke of?

Could I ever let him go?

I didn’t want to think about it. I didn’t want to think about him and this woman that would spend the rest of her life with him. Everything in my heart was crying out in agony at the thought, yet I could feel myself distancing from it. There were so many things that could change, so many unknowns, and so many issues that I just couldn’t solve on my own.

But there was time.

Candido said he’d met her weeks ago, but that was before the moon before my birthday. What if he was feeling something that I simply wasn’t old enough to feel yet? He could have confused me with someone else. Even if it was a different person, he didn’t know her.

He knew me. He loved me, no matter what h