Chapter 141 —Sasha

Narrator:

Roman didn't move. Not when she passed through security, not when it became impossible to see her one last time, not even when the clock seemed to remind him that the world was still turning.

He stood there, the image of her still hanging in the air, as if waiting for a miracle. As if Aylin were going to turn around, run back to him, tell him she couldn't do it, that she didn't want to.

But she didn't. She couldn't, and he knew it.

He took a deep breath once... again... and again. As if the air would replace her. As if filling his lungs could calm the pain that he didn't know where to begin to release.

After a few minutes, he lowered his head. Not to hide. But because the weight of the silence came down on him.

He turned on his heels. Slowly. Every step hurt his bones.

He walked to the car without looking at anyone. People came and went around him, with suitcases, in a hurry, with lives that continued on their course. And he... carried the end of the world