His Savior Was Never My Sister
I carried a small bouquet of fresh forget-me-nots.
Reports eventually filtered through the grapevine. Nicholas Rossi had survived. The bullet had traced a catastrophic path, shearing through regions of the brain that housed memory, personality, will. He existed now in a husk of a body, breathing but unseeing, unthinking, a permanent resident of a twilight world with no exits.
Victoria Castellano was gone. So was Vicki. I was simply Victoria Moretti.
I sat on the terrace that evening, Caleb’s arm around me, watching the sun dissolve into the ocean. The past was a closed book, its final, violent page etched in a silence I no longer had to hear. The future was a wide, calm horizon.