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64|Was It All A Lie?
Utterly astounded by her parents’ announcement Eden stared at them with complete shock etched on her face.
Weren't they too old to separate?
What did separate even mean?
"You mean like a divorce?" She asked in a strangely alien voice; there's no way this thin, trill sound belonged to her.
"Yes, honey," Erica reached for her hand to give her a reassuring squeeze.
Eden snatched it away before she could. In that awfully thin voice she barely recognised, she carried on with her questions, "but why? Why are you doing this?"
"We don't love each other," her Mom said calmly and dabbed her napkin on her lips before discarding it on the table beside her half-finished food.
Eden laughed. At least that's what she wanted to do. But it came out more like a snort. "Don't love each other? Of course, you do. You've been married for twenty-six years. If that isn't love, I don't know what is."
Sure, her parents were not shining examples o
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