Alejandro
Something closes up inside me. My throat feels immediately heavy as coldness starts spreading through me. A sudden frost I never expected to feel again after…
Katerina’s gaze is unyielding. She looks closed off, the shadows under her eyes deep and final. Her arms are crossed at her chest as if she’s trying to defend herself, to keep her distance. From me?
I shake my head. The sudden no, no, no matches the beat of my heart and quickly becoming the only thing I can hear, the only thought in my head. My entire world is suddenly narrowed in on the woman in front of me and the verdict that I know will come out of her lips in mere seconds. Nothing matters but her disbelief - not the bars keeping me separated from her, not the lies that might ruin every bit of future I have left, not
