Chapter 39 (The foolish)

I was done fighting back. I was done wishing for happiness. I was done with life and everything I ever believed in.

I did not know what it was but I felt like my life was cursed. I must have committed a heinous sin in my past life to suffer so much in this one. But still, never in the past have I ever had the urge to give up. I had always hoped for a good future for myself. But at this very moment, I knew I had none in my destiny. I was born to suffer. And I knew I would die the same way.

As I was thinking about the cruelty of life, I felt a heavy load drop on top of me.

Gabriel had lost his consciousness.

I felt a little sense of relief that I was not taken by force. That I still had my purity with me.

I pushed his heavy body on the other side of bed and breathed the air of relief. But then again I slowly turned towards him, towards the face I had trusted my life on, and now towards the face I would resent forever.

Seeing his sleeping face, I recalled all those night we’d spent toget