TILL THE CRACK OF DAWN

‘I didn’t want to be left alone in this world,’ Ophelia thought, adding yet another despair to the list of emotions.

She couldn’t handle the weight of it on her shoulders. How can she just be happy and forget all about her pack? It was what they would have wanted but, she couldn’t help but think that it was too selfish for them to hope that of her.

“I can’t do that,” she muttered, her eyes glued to her fists that trembled on her lap. “I can’t be happy with them gone. I can’t believe they would wish something as ridiculous as that from me.”

Noah saw the faint spark of fury in her violet eyes, the words suddenly felt hard to say. For a split second, he tried to place himself in her position. The very thought ached his chest. Indeed it was selfish to ask them to be happy. Because simply, the pain of the loss was too much to just ignore, and for children like them, it was impossible to see past the pain.

Their parents, pack, they are their whole world.

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