His Widow
She wasn’t finished.
“You traumatized me… please, don’t come near me for a while… You haunt me,” she whispered, almost as if saying it aloud made the words too heavy to bear.
“Why?” he asked again, his voice softer this time, almost imploring.
She didn’t look at him, but the tears fell freely. Her voice was barely audible between the sobs, but the weight of her pain was impossible to deny.
"You shot my husband. The blood still haunts me. I still have nightmares," she said, her voice cracking with anguish. "And then, you killed another one—more brutally. And you... you rubbed his blood on me. It was too much... I couldn't—"