Chapter 187 - Zenzele, My Love part 6

"Mtundu," I groaned, black tears coursing down my cheeks.

Zenzele sucked in a sharp breath and pulled me tight to her breast, her fingers in my hair. "I know," she whispered. "I know, beautiful one. It will be over in a moment. Just a moment longer. I promise."

I looked to the bright winter sky, so clear and still. The heavens were strewn with stars. There were so many of them it looked like whole galaxies had collided in the firmament, smashed together and burst apart, their twinkling guts spilled from horizon to horizon.

Then the memories swelled. They engulfed my thoughts like flood waters, sweeping me away from the present, away from my identity, and into the past of the woman who held me.