C103 Wants

Xavier

"I should have kept my mouth shut." She said in a hoarse voice, thick with spent tears. In the middle of their bedroom, eyes downcast, she must have been waiting for him to tell her she was right. "My sister is in pain because of me." Self-recrimination was a bad enough punishment, he had no intention to add more to her misery. Doing so would only hurt him.

'Tis mid-day