Chapter 7

Emma blinked and only then felt a solitary tear slide down her cheek which she immediately wiped away with the back of her hand.

How had he gotten it so wrong?

Now he knew that nothing that had happened in their relationship had been his fault, for a long time it was, but that year away from everything he could finally see the reality. You never finish knowing people, that saying she had heard so many times throughout her life, how much reason there was behind those words, in her case David had somehow hidden his true personality early on and it was only when it was too late for her that she had let the darkness inside her come out.

He was sick.

Enough to destroy the love she once felt for him in the worst possible way; of course, that memory was only one of many, all increasingly painful tha