Goddesses Don't Get Sick: Chapter 20

20.

Angela spent the following weeks immersed in her textbooks, trying to lose herself in her studies. When she found she had nothing left to study for, Angela simply turned her attention to textbooks of a different, more supernatural nature.

 She resigned from her job at the café and holed herself up in her room, only leaving the house when she absolutely had to. Soon, it just became a matter of Angela waiting for her graduation and the subsequent internship, all the time trying to make sense of her thoughts and feelings.

She no longer felt shame. Angela didn’t take long to decide there was no point in feeling shame over something she’d have had no way of knowing without being told.

As for the anger… that never left. Although it did ebb into the background, until it wasn’t much more than a dull ache in the pit of her stomach.

Eventually, Angela reached a point where she didn’t know exactly why she was angry at Tuyen, only that she didn’t want to see him. Didn’t want to relive the memories of that night.

Not now at least. She needed time for the anger to abate.

And then…then she’d have to see.

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