Chapter 12
“Very well, you may go, and remember - business as usual, please.”
I turn and climb the stairs to my room. I close and lock the door behind me and return to bed. I’m still angry and disappointed with Eduardo, but somewhere there’s still love, and the emptiness his absence has created inside me, I decide, is probably never going to be filled.
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In the days immediately following Eduardo’s departure, I find myself thinking more and more about the holiday I once suggested. I need to get away. Eduardo is in every room, every stick of furniture. I sometimes even awake at night and imagine, for a brief moment, he’s still beside me. But he isn’t. He haunts me. His absence is draining me.