Chapter 75

I stop, waiting for her to continue. But she only returns my inquisitive look, maybe waiting for me to ask something else.

"It seems easy when you talk.

Candice sits next to me on the toilet with the lid down, and breathes deeply before answering. "For people like you and me, it will always be difficult. Let's remember what happened. Feeling it's happening again. Even if science says that children of a certain age do not remember the abuse they suffered. Nonsense! We will always remember.

I get tense.

"And how do you deal with it?

She smiles, moving her left eyebrow slightly. “Trust. "My disbelief is obvious enough for her to have a laugh that sounds like a whistle. "I meant that the only way to make this work is to show someone what no other person, not even the abusers, could achieve. You trust that the person knows this side, and trust even more because he is the only one to know.

"Now it seems complicated...

"Sex is not math, Abby "she g