ELENA
My heart flips, fluttering at the sight before me. I feel my body melting into a puddle, my abdomen tightening when I spy the little smile on Halo’s face. This is the first time I have seen him so… happy, so relaxed while he is sleeping. This isn’t how it is supposed to be. He shouldn’t feel this happy when his father spends time with him because he should be used to it by now.
He should be used to his father spending time with him. He shouldn’t have been starved of his father’s love like he has been for the past years.
“Isn’t that what you are doing to him? By taking him away from his home, aren’t you depriving him of his father’s love?”
I don’t know where the voice comes from but it hits me hard with guilt and the subtle joy that I feel from the sight withers and fizzles into t
