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
the goddess
scream. “If you really cared… if you’re really out there… why would you do this?” My voice breaks as I hug myself.
was the wrong person for this. I’ve tried… tried to do my
apart and crush my strength? Despite everything, he gave me the strength to continue. Why did I allow
was the one who I had learned to forgive and not
to
as I try to pull myself together, but I can’t. He’s destroyed me… Destroyed the
against a firm chest. “He left me… again,” I whisper, a fresh wave of tears
We’re going
How?
many times I felt like he
night… he was saying goodbye,
Mom… she’s gone too.
Dad…
it squeezes in pain. My claws are out and my eyes
look at
“Sebastian, I want to talk to him. He needs to know that
hear me, please please
wall and
away as my vision begins to
on my bed, exhausted yet unable to sleep, in pain yet unable to feel it. Betrayed, yet unable
How do I recover?
feel, but today I was unable to
my strength; they are the only strength I need, but how do I tell them their dad has left
my
within me, the only thing I know is, I failed. Failed
Sebastian is truly gone.
Mom is dead.
Dad is missing.
the facts that keep
I’m a failure…
he’s the one who was there to pick me up after the man
Why does the mate bond exist when it
My heart hurts…
and I don’t move when it opens. There are three of them, and Valerie is holding a tray of
pick me up.” She says softly as she comes over, placing the tray down and kissing my forehead. I turn away, my
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
from anyone. Even my babies. I am an awful mother. I can’t even give them the best life they deserve and Sebastian…
his arms around me, but I don’t want anyone to touch me. I just want to be left
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
hiding for a bit, but it’ll show through soon. Here Zaia.” she offers me a chocolate muffin but
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