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…
way
the goddess doing
the wrong one! Why?!” I scream. “If you really cared… if you’re really out there… why would you do this?” My voice breaks as I
wrong person for this. I’ve tried… tried to do my best, but
to rip us apart and crush my strength? Despite everything, he gave me the strength to continue. Why did I allow myself to fall for him again? Why did
the one who I had learned to forgive and not only did I fall for
don’t want to feel
I can’t. He’s destroyed me… Destroyed the trust I
wrap around me, pulling me against a firm chest. “He left me… again,” I whisper, a fresh wave of tears running down my cheeks.
be ok. We’re
How?
many times I felt
night… he was saying goodbye,
Mom… she’s gone too.
Dad…
squeezes in pain. My claws are out and
look
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…
hear me, please
wall and I
Atticus’s voice fades away as my vision begins to spin and then, everything becomes
fallen and I’m sitting on my bed, exhausted yet unable to sleep, in pain
How do I recover?
kids how I feel, but today I was unable to hold my tears back as I hugged and kissed my babies, breaking
need, but how do I tell
my
the storm within me, the only thing
Sebastian is truly gone.
Mom is dead.
Dad is missing.
the facts that
I’m a failure…
me and bring me home… once again, he’s the one who was there to pick
exist? Why does the mate bond exist when it only gives
My heart hurts…
when it opens. There are three of them, and Valerie is holding a
over, placing the tray down and kissing my forehead. I turn away,
leaves the door open a crack, murmuring something about the children being asleep. He sits on the floor beside the bed,
unable to hide my emotions from anyone. Even my babies. I am an awful mother. I can’t
but I don’t want anyone to touch me. I
myself fall into an endless abyss of pain and doom. “Come on, where’s that beautiful smile that we all melt over?” Jai
Valerie laughs gently. “It’s hiding for a bit, but it’ll show through soon. Here Zaia.” she offers me a chocolate muffin but I shake
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