Chapter twenty-one
Chapter twenty-one I walked around my new home, like a robot. I wasn’t really there; I was still at Midnight Rose. Only there I had been myself, free from the burdens that I had been dragging behind for years. It was devastating not to see Sebastian, and at the same time to know he was inside me, fixed in my flesh, my blood, and into the most intimate fibres of my being. He alone had tried to understand me, while I was only able to judge him. I was already sorry for my decision, and I couldn’t escape the memory of his fists on the closed door, his desperate voice and Mrs Mc Millian's stone face at the announcement of my departure. Departure.... Escape, rather. To save Sebastian, or myself? I wasn’t sure. The night turned into day without me realizing it, and made me understand how depres
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