Chapter 25. Questionable Coincidences

The memories and thoughts kept mixing up in his mind, and the last one was the most puzzling and hurtful: It was of that woman he saw once while he was in his senior year in college.

There was this lady, walking down the same side of the street, but was strolling in the opposite direction. She was lost in a conversation with a very young boy, almost a baby, who was insisting on walking by his mother’s side but could barely do that. Maybe a year and a half old, at most. A boy with white skin and dark hair, proud and still making an effort to walk while holding her hand. Meanwhile, the mom had a baby girl in her arms. The small girl had the same blond hair his sister had, bright and yellow like the sun.

And their mum was the living image of his sister!

The same grey-greenish eyes, the same shape as her face, and even with that small scar on her chin…

But then, many things could have happened for that particular woman to have gotten that nick on her skin. After