Chapter 141

NOTE: TRIGGER WARNING. THIS SCENE CONTAINS RAPE TRAUMA. Alena Silence. It felt like I'd done something bad. I'd made Julia relieve a past trauma and now, I didn't know what to say to her. I didn't even know how to react. She'd been raped and had carried this guilt all by herself. "What...?. How?" Julia shut her eyes, ever so tightly. "I don't like talking about it but I'll tell you if you come lay down on the bed" I climbed onto the bed beside her. Then, Julia told me about her past. Her boss had raped her and she'd gotten pregnant in the process. Unable to face dad and I, she left us and got married to her boss. "You should have.." "Told you and Jonathan earlier?" Julia completes. "It's not something easy to talk about. If not that enough time had passed, I wouldn't have been able to tell you about it" While Julia had to live with this guilt for years, I'd resented her driven by my own feelings. Tears clouded my eyes as I admit, "I feel so shitty. I'm so sorry for everything you've be