Returning in Reverse After Betrayal
His face goes through a dozen emotions in quick succession—relief, fear, hope, and exhaustion.
“Sophia.”
Just my name.
But the way he says it carries everything.
Please be okay. Please come back. Please do not leave me to do this alone.
“I am not okay,” I tell him, because he deserves honesty too. “I am not fixed. But I am here.”
“That is enough.” He echoes Erica’s words, moving toward us. “For now, that is enough.”
We stand there, the three of us, in a corridor of Black River.
A broken family held together by desperation and the faint hope that somehow, someday, we will be whole again.
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