CHAPTER 94 AMAYA

Just as they were about to start leaving I spoke..

“We’re not done.”

No one answered immediately and that silence told me everything I needed to know because it wasn’t just exhaustion weighing on them, it was doubt, it was grief, it was the fracture still sitting between them like something alive and waiting to widen if given the chance, and I let it sit for a moment because rushing them now would only push them further apart.

Javier exhaled slowly, dragging a hand across his face before looking at me again. “With all due respect my love, it feels like we are.”

“No.. We’re not,” I...