There wasn't a word to explain how I felt when I first came here. Well, technically, there was, but saying it out loud to a person that wasn't Valerius was harder than I thought. The images of everything that happened were inside my head, but the words that were supposed to describe them wouldn't form. For a few long seconds, I stared into her expectant eyes, blinking in confusion and surprise. Did I know her that well to tell her how I really felt? I didn't know. But the woman had just opened up to me about her painful past. It was only fair that I, too, open up about a part of my story.
"It wasn't that I wasn't comfortable with him...it was just the way we had met and the way I had come here."
With that single sentence, it seemed as though Viola understood what I wanted to say. She re
