He never took that collar off me again, except on a few occasions. It is my pride, just as Luke said.
Returning to routine didn’t seem easy; there were many things out of place in my life, and the absence of others made everything more unreal. Like the fact that no one was calling me. My cellphone was turned off, the battery had run out, and I wasn’t even capable of plugging it in to recharge it. Nothing else could get into my head until that same day, during dinner, Luke brought me news that finally made me react:
“By the way, Johanna; a woman called the station today. She said she was your mother. She asked me to go to your house to see if you were okay, because you weren’t answering your cellphone and the landline number is out of service,” he commented casually while the three of us
