Here With Her.

Zane's POV

One who hesitates is lost.

"As we speak right now, Freya has been captured."

One who hesitates is lost.

"As we speak right now, Freya has been captured."

Odella was saying something. "My king."

One who hesitates is lost.

"As we speak right now, Freya has been captured."

"Your highness," Odella flat out shouted.

It wasn't like I didn't hear her all this while. I did. Very clearly in fact. But so as two other voices.

Adalia and Darius's voices in my head were more insistent, demanding to be heard as they repeated the same thing. I never welcomed them but I also never fought them because I deemed them useful.

They served a sacred purpose: to torment me. I needed that to remind me of the million ways that night Freya was kidnapped could have gone differently. This was the only way I could keep sane so I allowed them to go on making noise in my head. It wasn't a problem for me as I was already used to it.

The fact that I had gotten used to it didn't take the sting out of their