Chapter 33: The fear of the Truth
Aria's POV
"When I was informed that you would be working here temporarily, I thought Raphael was pulling my legs. And I really need my legs to be pulled as I am an old woman." Scian said when I stood in front of her with a note from Raphael.
Yesterday was when I had been officially discharged by Scian, six weeks after I had been brought to her, bruised, battered, covered in my own blood and unconscious.
In all of the remaining three weeks after Roma had told me that I was nothing to him but a debtor, here to pay my debts, I had not seen him once in my room and I had gone through the five stages of grief from denial to acceptance.
Acceptance that I was the one who had been blurring the boundaries of what we were to each other and was the one who ne
