It was him saying that he didn't know if he would be able to feel calm if he heard she was dead that caused what happened next. Maria felt her chest clench with pain and her head hurt as all of the emotions she had been feeling when she thought she had lost him rose up within her again -- but they seemed stronger this time.
"I wish... I wish you could feel how I feel about you, Michael," she said, trying to keep her voice even so she didn't start crying again as she looked into his eyes. "I wish I could show you how dark my world would be without you in it."
The pain hit her so quickly in the middle of her forehead that her eyes closed and she stumbled back with a breathless cry of pain so she didn't see when Michael turned to her again to say something.