CHAPTER NINETY - FOUR - THE MORNING IS ALWAYS BRIGHTER.

Mateo knew there was still a long to go to him actually getting over this. Healing. And that involved facing everything head-on. in this moment, surrounded by the memories of his loved ones, Mateo felt a sense of hope and determination to move forward. It had been the right decision to come back here. Maybe it was actually fate that had pushes him back home, and pushed Isabella far away as well. He had to face the past he had allowed himself to be trapped in. And he had to do it alone. He remembered his Father's words, " Face your trauma. Remember it and overcome it. Remember it and face it, that's the only way to overcome it. If you don't, you will always be a kid whose soul never grows up." His Father had told him that after him and his mother finished reading a bedtime story to him. Back then, he had listened but never really understood what the words meant. Now he did. And the irony of the fact that the same people who had told him that, were now the trauma that he h