Chapter 70. It Has to Be Mine!

GABRIEL

Kira didn’t realize I saw her across the street watching us. Maybe that’s why I left with Maddie. I could feel her heart breaking from a distance.

I thought I understood the world. I thought I knew right from wrong, truth from lies. But then came the trial. The evidence, the testimonies, the verdict. It shattered my beliefs, my confidence. Everything that had happened since then confused me.

Every day I regretted more and more that I had left Kira so far behind. We were so close once, sharing our dreams, our fears, our love. But then I got caught up in the trial, the media frenzy, the public opinion and snatching her daughter away from her. But now, as I look back, I realize how wrong I was. Kira was my anchor, my rock. She was the one who knew me inside out, who believed in me even when no one else did. And I let her go.

It was time to do something about it. To reach out to her, to explain, to apologize. I didn’t know if she would forgive me, if we c