Sophia
I couldn’t even bring myself to look at him.
Every time Erick’s shadow fell across me, every time his voice wrapped itself around my name, every time his scent filled the room, I felt like I was being torn in two.
One part of me, the part that belonged to my heart longed for him, ached to fall into his arms and let him chase away the storm inside me.
But the other part, the part bound to my mother, to the child I once was, wanted to scream at him, strike him, demand answers for the life he had taken from me.
So I did the only thing I knew how to do.
I ignored him.
When he called my name after I finished treating Queen Elise, I refused to answer.
When he asked why I had changed, why I was acting so differently, I clenched my jaw and marched past him as though he didn’t exi
