'Did you love her?' Iris asked.

I looked at her and didn't know how to explain it. 'She was the only girl I had allowed myself to get close to, so I must have liked her really much!' I answered. I didn't want her pity. If I said I loved Lila Martins, Iris might think that just like her, I was heartbroken and still was.

'Aren't you?' Sly whispered in my head.

'I am sorry to hear all that. It seems you had a very hard childhood unlike what I thought', she said.

'You thought that as the only ...