Chapter 109

"- Of course I am, in fact, I don't think you understand anything that's going on, but I want you to know, that even if you don't like me... - I hadn't finished speaking when I felt the man pull me into his arms, he squeezed me tightly, for a few seconds I was surprised, but when I felt the strong beats of his heart I could see how nervous he was with all that, I hugged his waist and sank my face into his shoulder when I felt him sink into my neck."

"Everything I had thought and done was in those words, all coming back to my mind."

"For some reason I understood that reaction, especially when I understood how the man behaved with other people and showed himself differently with me, and especially with Flora and Megan, somehow I could feel it, even if I didn't understand why I could still feel it, Ethan was just like me, he had also suffered, I don't know for whom, but I know in what way, you know to outsiders, his face might be the mark of a nasty fight between grown men, or because h