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
the goddess doing this to
you really cared… if you’re really out there… why would you do this?” My voice breaks
tried… tried to do my
strength? Despite everything, he gave me the strength to continue. Why did I allow myself to fall for
strength… he was the one who I had learned to forgive and not only did I fall for him again;
want to feel this
as I try to pull myself together, but I can’t. He’s
wrap around me, pulling me against a firm chest. “He left me… again,” I whisper, a fresh wave of tears running down my cheeks. “I
be ok. We’re going to figure
How?
I felt like he was saying
he was saying goodbye, wasn’t
Mom… she’s gone too.
Dad…
as it squeezes in pain. My claws are out and my eyes blaze
look at
think 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 plead through my tears. One last try… because I didn’t give Mom
If you can hear me, please please
met with nothing but a wall
away as my vision begins
I’m sitting on my bed, exhausted yet unable to sleep, in pain yet unable to feel it. Betrayed, yet unable
How do I recover?
was unable to hold my tears
strength I need, but how do I tell them
my thoughts don’t relent. Self-doubt, self-blame, guilt,
despite the storm within me, the only thing I know is,
Sebastian is truly gone.
Mom is dead.
Dad is missing.
the facts that keep hammering at my
I’m a failure…
the one to find me and bring me home… once again, he’s the one who was there to
Why does the mate bond exist
My heart hurts…
on the door, and I don’t move when it opens. There
she comes over, placing the tray down and kissing my forehead. I turn away,
and Atticus leaves the door open a crack, murmuring something about the children being asleep. He sits on the floor beside the bed, stretching his legs out, but I
my emotions from anyone. Even my babies. I am an awful mother. I can’t even give them the best life they deserve and
wrapping his arms around me, but I don’t want anyone to touch me. I just want to be left
of pain and doom. “Come on, where’s that beautiful smile that we all melt
through soon.
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