Until the day I left everything related to my old life behind, including her. If there was any regret in me for that, it was not having kept contact with Nadia. The last time I saw her, she was a dedicated student who still wore braces on her teeth. She looked nothing like the confident woman, dressed in white, who was in front of me now.
"I would give you a hug, but you do not seem exactly clean at this moment," I commented.
"It is alright, you can redeem yourself by paying me a drink later." She smiled openly, eyes shining with genuine joy at seeing me after all those years apart. That was when relief fell over me. Nadia held no resentment for my distance, and I was extremely grateful to her for that. "By the way, I am not a doctor, just an autopsy technician. But my father can never u
