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The Weight Of My Heart

Author: Author Falley
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Chapter Forty-Five: The Weight on My Heart

(Asher's POV)

It was a cold night.

A cold, cold night.

I could sense it in my bones, but I remained silent.

I simply stood there outside the healer's home, my children tightly holding on to me.

Their little bodies were warm against mine, their tiny faces so calm, so innocent.

They didn't understand what was happening.

They didn't understand how broken everything was around them.

I was jealous of that.

I glared at Zarina.

She was a couple of paces ahead of me, arms folded tightly across her chest.

She was so tiny.

So lost.

Her face was pale.

Her eyes, usually so bright, were empty now.

She didn't even look in my direction.

She just stood gazing at the floor as if she didn't have energy left in her body.

I clenched the babies tighter.

I had no idea what to say.

I had no idea what to do.

Some of me did want to yell for her, to snatch her from thin air and swear to her that all would be well.

But the rest of me.

The hurtful, bitter half.

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