Blinded by Blood

Present day…

***Rafael***

I stood frozen to the spot, lips trembling, eyes bloodshot.

Then the tears I’d tried so hard to hold in all this while Alessio was narrating what Milena had gone through began to drop.

It was slow at first, coming in little strokes, but it got heavier, tugging painfully at my heart strings as it flowed endlessly down my cheeks.

Alessio looked helpless as he watched me in