CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
PRIYAIt took a while for it to hit me, the fact that you were no longer here. Sure, I witnessed it, felt it, the way the noise ricocheted off the walls and into my head. At the time, it didn’t seem like reality and reflected more of a nightmare. Maybe this is the reason humans are the offspring of denial. We can’t handle the world. People desperately need the false truth we all want to live in, the one where everything goes our way, and there aren’t obstacles.
When the realization of your absence hit me, my body felt torn from the assaulting emotions. At first, it was subtle and simple, something that resembled a paper cut, but pain is the master manipulator. The fear of what was, is close to me, its guilt and regret, all its pieces continue to fester within me. My t
