GLORIA’S POV
What was there to tell? And should I tell her everything?
Zaya was pulling me out of the house through the corridor more excited than I had ever seen her about anything. Not that she smiles a lot for me to count. “I want to know every last detail. I know something happened between you two.” She said, the smile on her face and the excitement she had for me melted my heart, and I knew then that I had found a sister in Zaya.
This was a woman that had been taken to hell and back and she was smiling on my account. Did I have such strength to endure like she was?
It just hurt to know that she had been through a lot and she was still going through some of it.
I smiled back at her, hiding the worry that settled in my chest. I want her to be happy, genuinely.
She didn’t know
