Chapter 9

For a while, my suspicions about this woman had me discover I was wrong about her. Maybe my doubts had led me to realize that I and her are alike.

She's someone who lost her life to building someone else's.

I lost mine when I lost the one person who built mine.

"What makes you say that, sir?" I turn away from her as I try not to remind myself of the past.

She has such a close resemblance to her, even just her voice ties in hauntingly.

"You and I are more alike than you could imagine," I chuckle under my breath as the memories I've pushed down slowly crept back up from the surface of my mind.

"That's why I hired you, you took the job wholeheartedly and I knew then that my son needed a mother figure from how you brought yourself into the room until you left…" But deep down, I knew I felt her in you.

"But, if an opportunity comes during your job here… I hope you don't hesitate to take it, because you have the potential to be somewhere else," I remember her saying that to me, my wife wh