Cardan
My eyes are trained on her face, waiting for a reaction, any reaction. After the initial gasp of surprise, there’s been nothing else. Her face is bereft of any semblance of emotion. She’s completely closed off from me. And this guts me more than I’d care to let on. I hate that this is where we’re at now. Unable to read each other, or maybe it’s just because she doesn’t trust me enough to let me see her vulnerable.
She stares at me, but I’m not sure what she’s searching for.
Natalia is now like a vault. No matter how much I bang on the surface, it never cracks. She always without a doubt, slips behind the steel walls and closes herself off. And the contrast between how it used to be before and now causes me to frown.
Reading her used to be so easy, being able to tell when she w
