Elena felt a wave of anxiety rising inside her, but she tried not to show it.
“It was dark. You probably mistook something for your father. That sometimes happens.”
“No! He was standing with his back toward me. When I saw him, I got so scared that I ran away.”
For the rest of the day, her daughter’s words kept echoing in Elena’s mind.
Almost three years earlier, her husband, Viktor, had been involved in a terrible car accident. Doctors had fought for weeks to save his life, but his injuries were so severe that he had lost the ability to move or speak on his own.
Because of the brain damage, Viktor barely responded to his surroundings. His eyes remained closed, his
what Sofia told me today…”
Of course, there was no response.
Elena sat there for a long time, staring at her husband and trying to convince herself that her daughter had simply been frightened by the darkness.
