GABRIEL
She was asleep on the bed with the kids when I got back to the house. I stood next to the bed, looking down at the four of them, and for the first time since she came back felt like I could truly breathe. Everything had been a rollercoaster ride from the moment she opened the door to her family home earlier, and it was only now that I felt a sense of calm.
I’m not gonna lie; I’m only feeling this way partially because of what I just learned. It had been sticking in my craw the thought that she’d been with someone else. When she’d gone missing all that time, I never let myself imagine it. Even though I knew that she would go on with her life at some point, I wasn’t expecting to be here, so I wouldn’t have had to deal with it.
