Chapter 67: A Partner To Always Count On

Sapphire's POV

Eric drove me home and the ride, like most of our rides together, was dead silent. The difference this time was that we weren't silent because we felt awkward or because we were unsure of what to say to each other. We weren't quiet because we were angry or upset with each other. The silence was just there because we were still trying to process everything that happened. The weight of the events was just too heavy and it hung between us like a dense fog, flooding both our minds.

Jamila was seated at the back and just like us, she didn't say anything either. Not a single word. And while we were leaving the store, she had rushed back to pack up all of the stuff that we bought. Classic Jamila. If things hadn't been so bad, if we hadn't been shaken by the day's madness, I was pretty sure that she would have been hurling insults at the store now. And she would have made a bunch of nasty comments about Patricia and, like Eric had called them, her minions. She never would have