Chapter 86: Calm Before The Storm

Maya Two days had passed, and though the twins gave me more space than I ever expected, peace still eluded me. I was still somehow restless and the reasons, well, I wasn’t quite sure about that.  It wasn’t as if the reason was their presence that triggered the old memories—I had long since grown numb to them, used to their haunting appearances in my mind because no matter how happy I had been in all these years with Nate, there had not been a single day when the memories hadn’t knocked on my doors. When my heart felt like it’d explode and when my emotions were out of my control. The pain wasn’t from their faces resurfacing in front of me. It was deeper than that. Their return had stirred emotions I thought I’d buried for good. And what frustrated me the most was how pathetic I felt for caring even the slightest bit about these men, because they didn’t deserve it. They didn’t deserve any of the things I still somehow felt for them despite trying with every fibre of my being to try not t