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Their Fractured Bond Ch. 17

Author: Cara Anderson
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-12 14:08:26

Brynlee

At home, Maya keeps her promise to show me all the changes made while I was gone. The basement fort is elaborate—blankets stretched between furniture, flashlights for mood lighting, a carefully arranged collection of stuffed animals and books.

"Daddy helped me build it when I was really sad about you being gone," Maya explains as we crawl inside the makeshift structure. "He said sometimes when we're missing someone, it helps to have a special place to think about them."

The revelation that Rhett built a grief therapy infrastructure for our daughter while I was gone sends guilt crashing through me. He held our family together, found ways to help Maya process loss, maintained stability in a situation that could have destroyed them both.

And I can't even feel grateful for it through our mate bond anymore.

"It's perfect," I tell Maya, looking around at the cozy space. "Very professional fort construction."

She giggles and settles beside me with a book. "Will you read to me? Like
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    BrynleeThe highway stretches endlessly ahead of me, gray asphalt disappearing into gathering dusk like a metaphor for everything uncertain in my life. I've been driving for two hours, my hands gripping the steering wheel with mechanical precision while my mind cycles through the same devastating conversation on repeat.Maybe some space would be good.Rhett's quiet admission echoes in my head with the finality of a death sentence. He didn't fight when I suggested leaving. He didn't argue when I said I'd make it easy for him. He just... accepted it. Like my absence was a relief rather than a loss.Maybe it is. Maybe Harper was right that he'd be happier without the burden of trying to love someone who came back wrong.The road sign for Glass Lake appears in my headlights—thirty miles to go before I reach Olivia's house and have to explain why my relationship is falling apart two weeks after my miraculous rescue. The thought of admitting failure to my sister, of seeing pity in her eyes,

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  • Not Their Luna: A Female Alpha Story   Their Fractured Bond Ch. 25

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