It took a moment for Cosette to realize to whom she was talking about.
Aileen didn't hide her tears anymore. She was tired of herself. "I told her what her father did to me..., forgetting she was just a little girl. She must be hating me for taking away everything from her..., her father, her family, her home...,"
She looked lost remembering the time she saw that boy in her arms. "And there, when I remember Jane's cries..., and the way she held that dead child to her chest- " Her sobs made it hard for her to finish that sentence.
"I am hating myself now. She will never forgive me. Someday she will come back here. My heart is beating here, but- " She placed her hand on her heart, whimpered, " - I can't feel emotions any longer, Cosette. This pain is killing me. I never felt so worse i
