Chapter 79 He Got The Necklace
**Ethan‘s POV
The maps on my desk were beginning to blur together. Mostly, I was thinking about the war efforts–but sometimes about other matters.
Rosalie. The baby. The letter.
I couldn‘t think about it. I couldn‘t let my mind go there, not at all…
She had made her request of me, and I needed to honor that and live my life the way she wished. Except, how could I be happy without her?
I looked at the maps again, concentrating on the new Xs we‘d drawn for the new attacks, trying to come up with a plan. It was late, and most of the others had long gone to bed.
So I was surprised when there was a knock at my door.
At first, I thought perhaps I had imagined it. I looked up, waiting to see if I heard it again. Instead, the door opened just a bit, and Talon stuck his head in.
We hadn‘t talked much since he‘d told me the truth about Rosalie. I was angry at him, but I knew I really needed to be thinking about my own actions in this entire matter.
I wasn‘t ready for that yet.
“What is it?” | grumbled at him, returning my eyes to the maps, pretending to be so busy, I could hardly spare the time to look up at him at all.
Talon came into the room quietly, moving like he was afraid I had been asleep or still was. He cleared his throat and stood in front of my desk.
I should‘ve caught on right then and there that it was important.
I looked up at him. “What is it?”
Alpha, from time to time, some traders come in from the islands. Even now, with the war going on, that still happens. One of them had some nice jewelry pieces…”
I was confused by what he was saying, but I decided to continue to listen.
“…Vicky decided to take a look at them because she thought she might find a necklace or bracelet or something to cheer up the little girl, Lily, whose mother is still missing…”
I listened to him drone on and on, still wondering what the h*ll any of this had to do with me. “And?” I asked him, finally losing all my patience.
jewelry one of the traders
this.”
piece of jewelry out of his pocket and held it out to
the maps, so I wasn‘t sure I was seeing the necklace correctly at
after a moment of staring, I was certain
that piece of
from the lamp on my desk like a ghost, haunting me from beyond the grave, the gemstones catching
out and touch it, but I also didn‘t
up at Talon, I managed to ask him,
he get it?”
his fist. I hated that I couldn‘t see it anymore, but then, it was for the best–for now. “He got it in Avondale from another trader.
I repeated. My heart began to pound in my chest
there? Was it possible that
gone,
said, his voice calm. “Ethan.. we found evidence that Rosalie
Of course, he was right. It was stupid of me to think there was a chance that the young woman who
a million other explanations for how the necklace could‘ve
thought you would want it. I wasn‘t sure. I didn‘t know if having
two words
Rosalie‘s letter around in my pocket for so long without even opening it, why wouldn‘t I
hand out, and Talon dropped the necklace in
moment her necklace touched my skin, I
worn around her neck. Something she‘d kept close to her heart. Something she‘d had with her when
“Thanks, Talon. You can
didn‘t go right away, though. He just stood there, staring at
looked up at
work, and there‘s the stress of the war, and you have been eating and sleeping better, but there‘s so much going
This wasn‘t the first time I‘d had this conversation with him. “I
my comments.
Talon finally left.
took a moment to look at the necklace and remembered how beautiful Rosalie had looked when she‘d had it on. Her eyes had twinkled, and she‘d
had been one of my favorite
had also been one of my last memories
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