In an instant, Keira Leaf was the only person left in the room, and she lowered her eyes as she leaned on the sofa.
From the first time Joshua Sulliven left to capture Victoria Carter, to now, it has almost been a year. In this year, truly too much has happened, and too much has been experienced.
She also couldn't explain why she resisted his touch, nor did she want to proactively speak to him. Facing him felt like facing a statue, as if suddenly there was no longer the feeling from before.
She thought maybe it was because over the past six months, everything had changed, making everything unable to return to the past. Maybe the wounds were too deep to ever heal, or maybe the disappearance of their two children had become an insurmountable chasm between them.
Or perhaps, she had just gotten used to living without his presence.
