29- Alive again

Arielle.

I don’t even know how to explain it properly because words don’t seem big enough but the moment Kael said I could go back to school something inside of me cracked open like a shell that had been closed for too long.

It was like my lungs finally remembered how to breathe after weeks of drowning in his cold stares and suffocating rules and the way the whole mansion pressed down on me like a damn weight on my chest. I sat there at the dining table, fork in my hand food cooling on my plate and my head spun with just that single word he dropped so carelessly: Go.

He hadn’t even looked at me properly when he said it. His phone was pressed to his ear and his voice sharp as knives as he argued about a deal numbers and alliances and threats slipping out of his mouth like it was more important than me. Maybe it was.

To him I was probably nothing compared to a pack falling apart. But still he said yes. He allowed me!!!! It didn’t matter if it came out like a command instead of permis