"What do you really want, sweetie? A year from now, two years, the future? What have you always desired?" he asks, with a tone so calm it's soothing.
And in that moment, my mind flies to when I met Adam and how much I wanted us to be.
I wanted to be a wife, but the craziest part was that… I wanted to be a mother real soon too.
I've never experienced a family before.
I don't know what it's like to have a father smiling at his kids, or a mom wiping their nose and preparing them for school.
At home, Mom always had me do stuff for myself, even at a tender age, or the housemaid would do it.
But for some reason, they gave it all to Kareen—the attention, the love.
Everything shattered a year after Mom died, on my seventeenth birthday.
Dad tried to… he…
No. My head shakes aggressively.
