Chapter 74

Audrey I am distraught. How can Pen do such a thing to me? After all we've been through?! After all the love he sang to me all day long?! I trusted him so much that I would have given him the good god. No, he must be playing a joke on me. I love Pen too much to give up on him. This man, I have it in the skin. My thoughts are constantly on him. Everything reminds me of him. As Corneille put it so well in his book 'Le Cid', "you miss only one being, and everything is depopulated". That's exactly how I feel right now. I have the impression of being alone, abandoned to the world, without anyone. I don't think I'll survive if Pen leaves me. I love him too much, I believe that more than my own person. "Salvation !" I raise my eyes, misted with tears, to my sister who has just entered my room. I was so lost in thought that I didn't even know when she entered. "Salvation!" I responded by wiping the tears from my cheeks. "I knocked on the door, but you didn't