When love turns to ashes
She simply adjusted her glasses and looked at June with the calm, measured attention of someone who had heard more confessions than most people would ever imagine.
June wiped her eyes, her hands visibly shaking now. “I know I’m such a fool… and maybe even ungrateful to say this. I mean after everything he did, after how much I cried, how he doubted me, left me… after Audrey, after the lies, the betrayal I still feel it.”
“What is it that you still feel, June?” Dr. Marianne asked gently.
June paused, biting her lip. “The connection. The heat. The intimacy. Not the emotional pain, but the physical… passion. I think about that night sometimes. Not often. But when I do, it swallows me whole.”