Elna smiled slightly, but there was sadness in her gaze. “You and Adriana share the same wounds. Perhaps in different forms, but I can see it. The pain lives in your eyes, sneaking in silently.”
Ryan let out a bitter laugh. “I don’t deserve to be healed like she does.”
“Elna, I… broke her. In a past life, I stood by while everything collapsed around her. And now, I’m just trying to fix what I can.”
Elna looked at him for a long time before finally speaking gently, “Sometimes, forgiveness isn’t about what you’ve done. It’s about what you will do next.”
Ryan fell silent. His eyes still gazed at the sky, but his mind drifted far away. To the past that bound him, and to the woman inside who was now slowly rising from the wounds he had allowed to happen.
“If one day I can’t make amends for
