“So that’s it? Neb cried as the man walked past her not even sparing her a glance. He pauses his steps and angles his head at an almost forty-five degrees, looking in that direction as if she wasn’t important enough for him to look back at her.
“This is what you wanted,” and he continues on his way not looking back. Had he, he would have seen her tears.
Had he looked back he would have seen her covering her mouth with both of her hands in an attempt to cover her breaking heart and not scream out to him. To beg him.
Had he looked back he would have seen her legs giving out beneath her. Her knees landing on the dry barren dirt road.
Had he turned back he would have seen her gasping for breath as she couldn’t hold back anymore, “Don’t leave me,” she gasped out holding her chest that refus
