Chapter 40 Return

Her pained expression stared back at her. It was time.

She forced herself to smile, and the tears that welled up in her eyes spilled and crept down her cheeks. “I hate you,” she mouthed to the person reflected back at her.

Closing the bathroom door, she drew a breath to calm herself. Then, opened the top drawer of the nightstand and took out a pad and pen. Hastily, before Caelum comes back from his office, she sat on the bed and began to write the last pieces she ever will.

Tearing the topmost page from the pad, she left it atop the bed with the pen holding it down, and returned the pad on the drawer before closing it. Her mind screamed at her, with every step she took to get to the door, to run and tell Caelum, to trust in him and keep safe what they have, but the thought of losing her was too much to risk.