Annalise wanted to be heard and listened and that was exactly what Nicolas did. He didn't ask her what had happened, they had driven home in silence. She had spent the ride staring out the window and only when they got home did she begin again to cry, this time, he wrapped his arms around her and let her vent
"All these while I was blinded to it," she said, her voice breaking. Her heart was hurting, she felt as though her world had crumpled and maybe I had. She had just realized the truth that the people she had called family all of her life had never truly cared or loved her and now they'd completely abandoned her.
