Chapter 45

• Anna.
• I was sleeping, imagining an alternate world where everything and everyone were okay, where we didn't have to confront our past or our shitty actions. A world where my son, Henry, and I were together. Unfortunately, we live in this world, in this time and space... too real for me.
• Jeremy began to touch my cheek several times to wake me up, and I did so startled. I couldn't help but let my eyes search for Henry throughout the room, but I already knew I wouldn't find him. I made him leave, and even though I know it was the right thing to do, I have the undeniable feeling that my heart is plummeting to the ground, being trampled. I want to cry, but the fact that Jeremy is in front of me and that the door is practically about to fall thanks to the blows they are inflicting on it stops me.