CASSIUS VALES POV
One week later…
I stood by the kitchen counter, watching Annelise who was standing at the balcony, with the glass partition closed separating me from her. She looked hollow, lost… Confused, she’s been standing there for hours watching the Eiffel Tower with a glass of brown wine.
She hadn’t said a word to me since the Surgeons announced her mother’s demise, when we got the news, her reaction wasn’t what I expected, I had prepared myself to console her as much as she needed even if I didn’t know how to do that, but her reaction was… Blank, her eyes were vacant, she received the news like she had already been expecting the worst.
These were moments I wished I could control, I felt emasculated knowing that I could do nothing but to watch her get lost in grief.
She had re
