Chapter 27 I Think I’m Sick
Idris held his phone as his dark eyes bored into me. He did not answer it. I had no clue what he was thinking, but Moore seemed determined to get through to him. If he did not pick up, she would
simply keep calling.
Finally, he could not resist any longer. He answered the call. I had no idea what was said on the other
end of the line.
He got out of bed, went to the closet, and emerged in different clothes. I lay in bed, silently watching him hurriedly grab his coat and head out.
I watched him leave in silence, all expectations in my heart crumbling. My heart was filled with bitterness and self–mockery.
As Idris reached the bedroom door, he seemed to remember that I was his wife. He paused, looked back at me, and said, “Moore’s scared of thunder. Sorry, I need to go to her. You should get some
rest.”
I did not respond. Anyway, he left too quickly to catch anything I might have wanted to say.
The thunder outside grew increasingly loud. I clutched the blanket tightly as the sound echoed through the empty bedroom, its reverberations lingering for a long time.
Moore was afraid of thunder, he said?
He remembered her fears and could not bear to let her face them alone. He would go to her to comfort
her.
In any case, who was not afraid of thunder? Ever since coming back from the border five years ago, I had never dared to close my eyes on a stormy night. The moment I did, all I would see were the severed limbs and mountains of corpses from my time in captivity. How could Idris not understand? Oh, I forgot. He would never understand. He could not see those things back then. Only I could.
The rain outside grew heavier. There was no way I was sleeping tonight. The cruel memories and my current heartache were too much. They made my entire b*dy ache. I reopened the previously–closed window and stood on the balcony, letting the cold wind and freezing rain batter me.
Physical pain sometimes relieved mental torment. This was the only method I had found over the last five years to alleviate the pain of the torture from my past.
I knew I was sick. Terribly sick.
When the bedroom door was pushed open again, I had already been frozen stiff from the cold. Hearing the noise, I turned around.
It was Idris. He had come back.
Seeing me standing by the window and punishing myself, his expression changed drastically. He strode toward me, his handsome face dark and violent, looking almost as if he had gone mad. He
yanked me back from the balcony and almost screamed, “Yvette, have you gone mad?!”
I looked at him, my face frozen, unable to show any expression. I wanted to smile at him but could not muster the strength. I could only rasp, “Why’d you come back?”
The hot water warmed my b*dy a little. I looked at him and said, “Can you leave? I want to take a
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