Chapter 21: Unspoken Desires
STELLA
It'd been two years since Wales.
Two years since the vans. Two years since Desmond and Taylor.
I made it. I cleared my name from the internet but with a scar I would never heal from. A scar that haunted me to date.
Tears ran down my face as I stood at the same spot, the same as last year.
I couldn't hold back. I held a bouquet of our favorite flower in one hand—scented white roses and her favorite fiction novel in the other.
Living felt illegal, now that she was gone.
I dropped the flower and book on her grave, tears falling down my face as I found her picture engraved on the built wall behind the grave.
She was smiling. Like she always had.
I made it back.
She didn't.
They'd taken her from me. The most important of all was what the
