Lord

Mo

Sanem had barely slept, seeing Can, their kiss and argument had left her rattled. She ate, showered and dressed in slow motion; she wouldn't got to work today, or any other day, that life was over. She knew she would have to face her uncle on the matter and it would bring up the one topic she had avoided so far, had Murat facilitated her parents' murder? Her arms grew covered with goosebumps at the thought...

She was making more tea when her doorbell rang. She pressed the button and saw Mo's face on the screen. His eyes were his usual ones, soft and filled with a long life, she somehow knew she was safe and opened the gate for him to come up. She left her front door open and returned to the kitchen.

Mo walked in and shut the door behind him. Sanem came around the kitchen counter holding two glasses of tea that she placed on the dining room table.

S: ''2 sugars.''

Mo smiled and nodded. They both sat at the table at an angle from one another. Sanem remained silent as she was unsure about the purpose of his visit.

Mo: ''Sanem... I want to start with apologising to you... I was the one supposed to take care of you and vouch for anyone coming next to you, I failed you in Miami... I was cocky... we've stayed in this hotel so many times, I thought everyone knew not to approach us and I just lost sight of you.'' Sanem remained silent, tears started to prickle her eyes and she knew more were growing.

Mo: ''I had no idea Emre was so bitter, he's always been so volatile, he'd never put a plan in place and execute it, again I failed you.'' By then, the tears were spilling out of Sanem's eyes and she was trying to wipe them with her sleeve while nodding in agreement.

S: ''Why are you telling me this?''

Mo: ''After Can met you...'' he was speaking slowly, choosing his words, ''...it was as if life had finally entered his body... we called him a machine as a joke but that's what he was, so controlled, rigid, predictable... and then there was you... I met a Can I had never met before, he smiled, he loved, he took pleasure, he did things for himself... you changed me too you know... you reminded me we were all alive... and yet we had let life pass by for years, wasting it with the business and the business only...''

S: ''what's the point of being alive?'' she finished his train of thoughts.

Mo: ''exactly!'' he sighed as he spoke

S: ''again, why are you telling me this Mo?''

Mo: ''I know you saw Can last night...'' Sanem bowed her head in sadness.

Mo: ''he's realised that too you know... he came to me this morning... he'd had an epiphany or something... everything you brought into his life and how alive you made him feel... but more than anything, how much he had missed on life before you... what his father is doing to him...'' he stopped for a brief moment.

A slight smile very briefly covered Mo's face as he was recounting Can explaining how for the first time in his life, Sanem had made him whole.