Please say this is a lie…
His words through the phone echo in my mind, making everything else fade away. “Zaia!” Annette’s distant shout echoes in my mind as I fall to my knees, broken.
Sebastian left me.
Tears stream down my cheeks as I clutch my chest. The pain I feel is far worse than anything I have felt in my life. Far more excruciating than when he rejected me years ago.
It hurts so much… my heartbeat is ringing in my ear, along with the shrill whistling sound that makes my head want to explode.
I cannot breathe.
Sebastian…
“Why!” I scream as I stare ahead, unseeing.
Flashes of our moments together flood my mind but all I can focus on is him. The signs were there, the way he was behaving… how long had he been planning to do this?
I thought we were a team. I told him I needed him. Why?
Will I never just be enough to keep him happy? Sobs wrack my body and I feel like I’ve lost everything. The threads of my life had begun to come undone, yet I still held on… still hoped for something more.
Mom… Dad… Sebastian…
Just the way I am failing Sia and my
the goddess doing
really out there… why would you do this?” My voice breaks as I hug myself. I feel so
this. I’ve tried… tried to
gave me the strength to continue. Why did I allow myself to fall for him
one who I had learned to forgive and not only did I fall for him again; I fell for him all over
to feel this
can’t. He’s destroyed me… Destroyed the trust
“He left me… again,” I whisper, a fresh wave of tears running down my cheeks. “I can’t tired…” cope anymore. I’m tired, I’m
be ok. We’re going to figure
How?
felt like he
he was saying
Mom… she’s gone too.
Dad…
My claws are out
look at
it’s Atticus, but it’s becoming dark. “Sebastian, I want to talk to him. He needs to know that there are other options.” I
you can hear me, please
but a wall and
away as my vision begins to spin and then,
to sleep, in pain
How do I recover?
but today I was unable to hold my tears back as I hugged and kissed
I need, but
the darkness of my bedroom, despite being alone, my thoughts don’t relent. Self-doubt, self-blame, guilt, sorrow, pain,
thing I know is, I failed. Failed everyone
Sebastian is truly gone.
Mom is dead.
Dad is missing.
the facts that
I’m a failure…
me home… once again, he’s the one who was there
exist? Why does the mate bond exist
My heart hurts…
the door, and I don’t move when it opens. There are three of them, and Valerie is holding a tray of
the tray down and kissing my
open a crack, murmuring something about the children being asleep.
my emotions from anyone. Even my babies. I am an awful mother. I can’t even give them the best life they deserve and Sebastian… I wasn’t
I don’t want anyone
I feel is clawing inside of me, but I refuse to let myself fall into an endless abyss of pain and doom. “Come on, where’s that beautiful smile that we
“It’s hiding for a bit, but it’ll show through soon. Here Zaia.” she offers me a chocolate
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