Alex
“Come on…” I turned the shower off and ushered her out of the stall. My whole body was tense, I wasn’t ready for this conversation after everything was going on so smoothly. So right. I didn’t wanted for her to remember, not now because I knew it’d hurt her. I didn’t know what was going on inside that complex brain of hers but from the one look at her face I knew she was on the verge of breaking apart.I took a towel and dried her. She didn’t object even when I kneeled down in front of her and slid my palms up on her legs, inside her thighs. She looked so lost. “Baby…” She blinked her eyes before focusing back on me as if coming out of a trance.
I watched her throat working up and down and she asked, her voice hoarse, “Did they… re—really take your mom?”
Even as much as I tried, I c
