As the doctors and nurses came running, one turned to me and asked, “What did you do? You upset her!”All I had tried to do was talk about my wife.The nurses injected Mom with something, a sedative maybe, and she seemed to calm down.Was this how it had to be, then? Was talking about Amber too much
Olivia’s POV“You’ve failed us, Olivia,” Father said, his gaze sharp and his tone sharper. “We were expecting you to be Luna.”“I could still be Luna,” I told him.“No,” Mother said. Her own eyes were like daggers, each piercing me down to the heart. Even as a child, she had never showed me warmth.
Amber’s POVI didn’t sleep the night after Julian left. With him here, I hadn’t realized how safe I felt and had taken that comfort for granted. Now that he was gone, I felt like I couldn’t really relax. I was jumping at shadows, worried that if I needed someone, everyone would be too far away to he
Julian swallowed, then, keeping his face blank, he told Alice, “I’m sorry, honey. But I have to go back to my pack for a few days. My mom is very sick and she needs me.”As Alice blinked, all the good mood drained from her face, right alongside the color. She looked at Julian with large doe eyes, qu
Amber’s POVJulian’s words broke my heart. I didn’t really know what it was like to have a mother, so I could only imagine the pain of having one for so long just to lose her. I thought of my daughter, even in the future as an adult, trying to cope with the cope of my loss.Julian kept a steady gaze
Amber’s POVBefore opening the letter, I immediately called Rafael to join me, inviting Mary as well, so that she could see how the envelope was sealed. Whatever results were within, we would read and learn together.I continued working until they arrived, then the three of us went into the only mee