CHAPTER 41 Two months later. It has been good--she kept telling herself; it was what she wanted. It was the freedom she had asked for, the release she ever wanted—yet, when she started to think of the future—it was an endless and vast nothingness. "Si tu piensas que no merezco tu amor...Goodbye, Samira." (If you think I don't deserve your love... Goodbye, Samira.) Those were the last words Damien said and it was ringing in her brains over and over again like a broken tape-recorded and she was very mad at herself. The past months since they parted ways had not been easy for Samira. Although openly, she never admitted it. She could no longer count in her fingers the times she stopped herself from calling him. She found herself having internal battles to resist the temptation to speak