“It’s all right now. Don’t worry, honey, it’s all over” she whispered in her ear, avoiding looking into her eyes, otherwise Jodie would have understood that she was lying to her.
After a few days and many clinical examinations, Judas and Nicole returned home, they tried with all their might to resume their old life but discovered that nothing was the same as before. By now they were afraid of everything and everyone, they avoided going to crowded places and every little unusual noise, or sometimes even just a glance from someone, opened the way to a terror as irrepressible as it was irrational. They no longer felt safe even within the walls of their home and were worried, more than for themselves, for the future of Jodie and that of the unborn child. They kept wondering if what they had i
