Dr. Valentina. I have been trying to bury the events of that day, but I knew this day was going to come. I just didn't think it would be this soon. The second I hang up with Kumba, the second the silence settles too heavily in my office, my mind does what I have been forcing it not to do for weeks, to go back to that specific day.The day everything was supposed to be a normal routine I had done it a million times, it was the easiest procedure, very predictable except it wasn't like the others. I lean back in my chair, closing my eyes slowly, letting the memory come whether I want it to or not.I remember seeing the file on my desk, which was not unusual at all, it was supposed to be another patient, another name. I remember reaching for it, flipping it open absentmindedly, already thinking about the next appointment, the next case, the next, that's what happens when you have been working my job for years. And then I saw it, her name, the name that haunted my darkest secrets, Mor
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