“For days I’d waited to hear those words, yet now they rang hollow in my ears. Empty. She didn’t understand the meaning of them. Perhaps couldn’t. They implied truth, trust. I doubted she’d ever known either. Still – I wanted to believe her. Desperately. And an apology from her didn’t come lightly.”

“For days I’d waited to hear those words, yet now they rang hollow in my ears. Empty. She didn’t understand the meaning of them. Perhaps couldn’t. They implied truth, trust. I doubted she’d ever known either. Still – I wanted to believe her. Desperately. And an apology from her didn’t come lightly.”

— Shelby Mahurin