FATHER IN LAW BLESSING

Roger P.O.V

"Yes." I answer and she stares at me for a moment longer before she buries her face into her hands.

She doesn't make a sound, just sits there hiding from the world, the pain … me. I open my mouth several times, only to shut it again and again, not knowing if telling her would cause her more pain or relieve the one there.

Would it be too much for her or just what she needed? I wasn't sure so I held my tongue and waited for her to make the decisions I couldn't.

"Why don't I remember him?" She says after removing her hands but not looking at me. Her beautiful orbs filling quickly as her heart slowly picked up with anxiety. Those beautiful eyes. … they were once a beautiful, olive green but now shone with darkness forged of history's past, much like my own.