Chapter 51: Daphne

"What do you mean they left?" I asked Lennon. We were sitting on a hunter-green velvet couch, watching the fires in the fireplaces beside us, kicking off our shoes, and feeling the cushions sink under our bodies. "Why would Alaine leave you?"

"I don't know," Lennon muttered, shaking his head. "I treated them like my own family, but Alaine has found someone, so she rejected me and brought her family to whoever that jerk was." The sadness in his eyes spoke volumes as he continued to share his heartbreak. "And then my parents decided to look for them because I was too distraught to do it myself. They wanted to make sure Alaine and her family were okay, and maybe even convince them to come back. But on their way back here, my enemies ambushed and killed them without any mercy."

"N-no…" There were so many questions in my mind, but they couldn't be put into words. All I knew was that Jaime was dead, and I didn't know how to process the devastating news. We departed on bad terms, but now all