Chapter 27

This chapter mentions rape. If you find that offensive, please skip to the next one.

Lazarus

It’s been a week since Garon abducted Elina. I do not sleep in our room. I hardly ever go there. Her smell is too strong and my grief cant take it. I usually sleep on a couch in a resting room or game room, if I sleep at all. I work myself hard in the gym to find some type of distraction when I’m not at the bridge to do my duty as a captain. But the workout is never enough, the hours on the bridge are never enough. There is too much time in between when my thoughts can wander. And they always wander to Elina.

All my thoughts are of her. Of her smell, of her smile, her giggles and her blushes, her scrunched up face as she focuses on her games. Everything around me remin