Her crying was gentle, difficult to discern whether it was from happiness or sorrow. Liam Summer hadn't expected that his words would make Aldana Candi cry so hard. He hadn't comforted a girl before, and suddenly he was at a loss.
Aldana Candi hugged her legs, burying her face against them, letting the moisture in her body evaporate along with her tears.
What erupted in her heart was not sadness, nor the joy of a successful surgery, but a mix of complex emotions. Those feelings had been suppressed deep in her heart for eight years, and now it was as if a dormant volcano had been breached. Emotions, hot like lava, surged out from the opening. Her body couldn't handle such feelings and could only turn them into tears, releasing the emotions from deep within.
She had waited for this day, waited for so long, too long.
So long that she had become desperate.
