Chapter 178

• As days passed and before anyone knew, it was the month of July. The walls of the house grew thicker and thicker for Regina. Even for Sophia, who, around Leopold, she not only had to refrain herself from wanting to kick his teeth in at the sight of him being alone with Regina within the library walls, or cornering her in the kitchen. Sophia of course would always be around, making sure that Leopold kept his hands off as much as possible around her. She knew that behind a closed and locked door, things were different obviously, and Sophia was always there to tend to every bruise, growing angrier by the minute.
• If only the two of them were inside Sophia's Volkswagen, or Regina's Mercedes, on top of that cliff, just the two of them. Kissing under the night's sky, above the city lights.
• Regina dreamed of that moment every single night as she would close her eyes. The warmth of Sophia's lips on hers, guiding their kiss slowly and patiently. Sophia's hand, the way it would cup the back of her neck, gently- never forcefully- pulling her into their kiss just a little more. The delicacy of her thumb as it caressed along her bottom lip or above and over her scar.