“Has she called you yet?” Matteo’s voice sounded strange through the phone, as if he had to physically restrain himself from crawling through the wires and beg his sister to give him the answer he was longing for.
“No, Matteo, she hasn’t called. It’s been a month, are you sure she will?” Altea tried to sound calm, but knowing that her brother was still hurting, even though so much time had passed, made her want to do something to help him.
Matteo didn’t answer her, lost in his thoughts. Why hadn’t she reached out? Not that he expected her to call him, even though he was hoping that somehow she would forgive him and they could have a conversation about everything he told her, that he could explain himself and help her find her place in this new reality she had found herself in. But he wa
