Apocalyptic Rebirth: With a repairman system space, she rises again. - Chapter 321

Chapter 321: A sisterhood in formation.
Leave! It was not a word Sunshine wanted to hear. She shook her head. “That is not why I am here and I would never ask you to leave. Especially not in your condition.”

Leah stared at the wall, eyes mostly empty. “If I were you, I would throw me out.”

“No.” Sunshine said, stepping closer. “Leah you are grieving. I cannot say that I understand what it feels like to lose a child. I wouldn’t pretend to. But I know what it is like to lose a life to Moon and I know what it is like to hate her so much that you want to break her apart, piece by piece. I promise that you will have my full support and backing in your hunt as long as you trust me.” She touched Leah’s hand. “On your own, you will not beat Moon.”

Nimo made a sound agreeing with what Sunshine had just said. “No one knows Moon more than Suni, you can take her word for it. That witch has been cunning and evil since childhood, I always warned Suni about her, but she didn’t listen until Moon hurt her badly.”

Leah’s posture softened, the defensiveness melting from her face. Her eyes darted to Sunshine, seeking for understanding. “From the first time I saw her, I knew there was something sinister about her…..I cannot explain it, but she was just off. That plastic smile, her greedy eyes, the voice that was sweet but stiff and her over the top unnecessary good deeds….” she clenched her fingers till her knuckles whitened. She slapped the bed and screamed.

The sound tore through the wall, going beyond to the hall outside. All Sunshine and Nimo could do was watch and wait. Given what Leah was enduring, no sweet words or pity would comfort her.

Around fifteen minutes later, Leah wiped her tears and sipped some water.

“Do you feel better?” Nimo asked her.

“I will never feel better.” Leah answered in a whisper. “Not even after I kill that bitch. My children are never coming back to me after all.”

Sunshine gulped. Leah’s grief was suffocatingly tangible. It reminded her of those mothers that she saw in her past life, carrying bodies of their children that had starved, crying without truly crying as they did not have tears to spare.

“Have you lost someone too?” Leah asked. “Did Moon kill your loved one?” Her voice was hoarse and cracking.

Sunshine nodded slowly, she could not tell Leah that the person she was asking about was her past self. But it counted none the less because she loved herself. She had fought hard to survive, and Moon had killed her in the end. “Yes. Moon used her usual act of fishing for pity, then gaining her trust. After which she ended that person’s life when they least expected it.”

“Bitch!” Nimo cut in.

Leah clutched the blanket tightly. “She is good at that, getting people to trust her. That is how she convinced everyone, including my husband that she was harmless. I warned him about her, but he kept saying she had not done anything so far to warrant suspicion. He thought we should wait and catch her in the act or something. Now see where that landed us. Our children are dead.”

Soft sobs came from her, tears run down her eyes.

“You cannot blame him though; there was some logic in what he said. Moon is a first-class Oscar worthy actress for the most pretentious woman alive. She can easily fool anyone. If you accused her of having ulterior motives without evidence, she would make you out to be the bad person.” Nimo told her. “She used to do that to Suni when we were in school. Thanks to her, my Sunshine had many haters and few friends.”

Sunshine nodded lightly. “We all learn the hard way when it comes to Moon. Your husband will never make the same mistake again. He will not trust easily ever again, unfortunately it had to take the death of your children to harden him.

I don’t know what you plan to do but I know that at some point, you will have to try to forgive him. If not for him, it has to be for yourself, for your own healing. For Aliana.”

For a long moment, Leah said nothing. Silence filled the room, and it was not entirely comfortable. It was not tense either. It was just heavy, like a verdict waiting to be spoken.

Leah started crying again, broken tired sounds that made Sunshine and Nimo sigh in pity. They both knew that the woman was not ready to heal.

“I really thought she was here.” Leah said broken heatedly….”I thought everything would be over once we got here. That I could have revenge and make sense of this tragedy. She took everything from me. My children, the love for my husband, my home….I can never go back to camp Zenith, it’s a graveyard of memories. I hate everyone there and I want to set it all on fire. I don’t know where to go next in search of Moon. I don’t know what to do….” She covered her eyes with her palms, sobbing uncontrollably.

Sunshine’s heart arched. She sat on the bed and embraced Leah from the side. “Then you stay here. You don’t have to go anywhere right now.” She said softly. “I already told you that you do not have to go through all of this alone. We’ll find her together. And when the time comes, we will pull the trigger together.”

“All of us, together.” Nimo threw in.

Leah looked at Nimo, then Sunshine. Her tear-streaked face searching Sunshine’s face for the truth. And there she found it_ unflinching, resolute, burning with the same fire that she had.

“Trust us.” Nimo said. “We want her dead…no, we want to tie her to a cross and set her on fire like they did witches in the old days.”

Sunshine squeezed Leah’s shoulder. “Or we cut off parts of her body and put her in a drum…. Carson knows all about it. It will keep her alive, useless and in pain forever.”

“Pain, she has to suffer.” Leah growled.

Nimo moved to the other side of the bed and also hugged Leah. She did not push them away but accepted their comfort. They didn’t know it but a strong sisterhood had been born, not by blood, but by loss, by fury, and by promise of retribution.

Sunshine left Leah’s room only after she was certain that the woman had eaten a whole bowl of porridge and fallen asleep.

Nimo chose to stay behind, sitting quietly by the bedside, her hand resting lightly on Leah’s arm. Leah still wasn’t ready to let Dominic into the room with her.

When Sunshine stepped out in the corridor, Dominic immediately stood up. His eyes were weary, full of questions he didn’t know how to ask.

“How is she?” He asked quietly. “Can I see her?”

Sunshine gave him a gentle look. “She needs time to adjust, but she ate something and actually fell asleep. Leah is strong and she will bounce back from this…. both of you will.”

Dominic swallowed hard, nodding. “This is entirely my fault; I should have listened to her. I don’t know what to do.”

“Keep your mind occupied.” Sunshine advised softly. Find ways of letting out your anger and most importantly grieve. If you do not grieve, both you will explode.”

He nodded slowly.

“I am going to assign a psychologist to her as she has decided to stay here.” She told him.

Dominic blinked. “She is staying!”

Sunshine nodded. “I know that you will stand by her, so this is your home now too.”

Dominic was barely listening as his mind was wondering. If they were staying, what about the hunt for Moon? Was his wife giving up?