Chapter Twenty Eight – Comfort, An Alliance, And A Rejection
Marco held his wife close to him, allowing her to punch and hit and scream in his arms until finally her body went limp and her screams turned to small sobs. Scooping her up he sat on the bed cradling her in his arms like a small child as he gently rocked her back and forth. Something within him broke as he looked down onto her tear streaked face, and her body trembling.
Marco began to feel, it was as if her pain had broken through the wall of protection that he had kept his heart locked behind since the death of his own mother, and Eva’s pain unleashed his own.
A tornado of emotions washed through him, pain for his wife, fear that she would never be the same, helplessness, compassion, concern and anger filled his cold hea
