For fifteen years I've waited. 

All this time I have kept my distance, my heart twisting in knots as he stomped her soul into the ground. Just like Vella asked me, I've stayed silent and willed myself not to act.

Until the hospital called me.

Now she's finally let me help and opened herself up to me. At work, they keep telling me to make the first move, but it's not that simple. 

Because I never left.