Chapter 156 A Cookie Date

(Lydia)

The familiar weight of Thomas’ hand on my thigh felt like it was healing something inside of me.

I didn’t speak much after that because it felt like the lump in my throat would burst and I would start sobbing.

The years of our separation were some of the hardest years for me. I had lost my partner cruelly. Someone who had told me that they would be there for me in sickness and health suddenly shunning me felt like I had been pierced with a stake directly at the heart.

I had missed him dearly in those days.

However, what I had missed the most was this. The familiarity that comes between two married people who know each other very well.

Like me drowning in guilt and confusion and him placing his hand on my thigh in support and giving me reassuring words with a reassuring smile, knowing that it would make me feel better.

It was these little things that I had missed the most during those years.

I tried to forget about them. I tried to replace the feeling of emptiness inside of me,