When Maria had no tears left, she broke away from Clara's comforting embrace, rose to her feet and headed unsteadily to the living-room.
"Are you okay?" Her stepmother's soft voice broke through her mental haze. She had obviously followed her, concerned as she was about her.
Maria raised an eyebrow in response and allowed a small sardonic grin to break through her bleak features.
Was she kidding? She was most definitely not okay!
Numbness had taken over, and she was almost sure she had become indolent. She was a soulless body.
She looked without seeing through the bag he had brought and couldn't help but feel her chest getting all the more constricted each time she remembered what he had said.
He thought she would choose Tyler over him – as if!
"You need to understand that I would
