Brooke Codona is a beautiful young woman and tries to keep everything together. Everything felt good in her life especially her marriage until her husband cheated on her. With nowhere to go, she gets a letter from her late grandmother stating that s...
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I haven't left my room for two days now. My mother has been by my side silently as she understands how I feel on the inside. I spent a few days with Damon, feeling his torture. Giving my body to him like if I was a play thing.
It hurts but feels good that I got to see the end of his life. Why did I like it so much? Is there something wrong with me?
I sat there on the bed, looking out the window, out the sky. Just dozing off but trying to feel some kind of normal.
To how life was back then.
I hear a knock. I don't respond but the door opened slowly. I don't turn my head until I hear foot steps.
"Brooke..." they say.
Milena.
I haven't seen her since I was taken by Damon. Apparently ever since I came back, she felt nervous to see me. She hates herself so much and every part of me wants to tell her that it isn't her fault. She didn't plan for this.
She too, faced the torture. Only I felt it on a deeper level. I knew Damon, I was married to him. It was the deepest cut in my life, it showed me that everything was fake.
That I was truly a fool.
A fool to believe his lies.
Milena takes her seat next to me on the bed. I keep staring out the window and I take a deep breath.
"That pain you feel dear, take it in. Let it in you, cry it out. Don't let it consume you. This job is darkness and it will always be darkness. But it isn't who you are Brooke. You are so much more dear, I never wanted you to think that this name defines who you are. We wanted you to have a life without it and you can still have without it. You may be a Dragomir but you are a Codona, never forget that" she speaks.
Her hands immediately go to mine and she caresses my hand softly. I close my eyes and the tears flow out. The tears rolls down my cheeks and I let it in.
I nod and I cry silently. I let it in. All of it. I think of the happy memories as well. I try to block out all of the bad. I try to remember that I have my mother and now Milena as well as my dad. And maybe even Sin.
I take my other hand and I start to wipe my tears. I turn my head and I look at Milena with red eyes.
I nod. "This has forever changed me Milena, I can't go back.. even if I wanted to. This has changed everything, forever".
She nodded. "I understand dear. And I will never hate you for it, but don't lose yourself".
I nodded. "I won't".
A few days pass by and I got out of my room. I started to training more with my cousins as well as with my dad. We have bonded more and he has been trying to accept that I was taken. He never imagined that it could ever happen and now he has been so overprotective. It was weird seeing it but refreshing to see. My younger self was delighted.
