ALVA
It's two in the morning. I sit in the dim light of my apartment, watching the blue glow of my laptop screen as it illuminates a half-written sentence that has stared me down for three days straight.
My fingers hover over the keyboard with uncertainty. Every time I try to force the next paragraph of my novel, my chest tightens.
The cursor blinks, mocking me. The woman in my story, Elara, is stuck in the same place I am. She had given away her first child (a son) after a night that broke her body and her spirit.
She's now raising her daughter with the desperate kind of love only a mother who has lost something can give. And I can't decide if she deserves peace at the end of her arc.
Do I let her find redemption? Or do I let her die broken, just as Camille did? Did Camille die broken though? Even if she did, it must have been connected to Demi, and not me for sure.
