Seven Years
He was in pain, "Audrey, I'm sorry. I had no idea what you had been through. No one referred to the ransom..."
"Jeffrey, can you and Joanna go through what I went through? You can't make it up to me, but I forgive you."
"Really?" Jeffrey didn’t believe what I said, trembling as he grabbed my hand.
"As long as you give Kash back to me."
That night, Jeffrey, hollow-eyed, stood by my bed for a long time, feeling complicated.
He insisted that he didn't know where Kash was. So I didn't want to talk to him until his phone rang. He tucked me in and left me in a despondent state.