Cephus’ POV

Chapter 102

Cephus’ POV

We returned to the olive orchard and sat on a blanket under a tree.

I could swear it was the same blanket. It looked the same, anyway.

And then she started to talk and tell me about her family, how they’d lost her father and struggled to work the land and support themselves.

And I heard every word coming out of her mouth, yet I couldn’t make sense of anything she was saying.

I was so affected by her presence.

I couldn’t take my eyes off her as she finally came out of her shell and showed me that she liked me as much as I liked her.

We became friends and were confined to each other.

And I immediately felt like she’d have my back if something bad happened, and my mind ran away with that idea.

And for the first time ever, I imagined someone like her to have a family of my own one day.

Have a wife and children.

And it quickly dawned on me how impossible that was.

Like her hair being tamed, sitting nicely in her ponytail, it was simply impossible.

I had a family and