Dying Was Easier Than Loving Him
“You are stronger than any Alpha this valley has ever seen, Amelia.”
“I am just tired of carrying heavy things,” I murmured, leaning in to kiss his jawline. “Tomorrow, I want to go back.”
The next morning, the underground archive was quiet and cool when I pushed open the heavy wooden doors.
Mabel sat at her small desk, her posture stooped and her snow-white hair looking slightly unkempt. She looked twenty years older than she had three days ago, her dark eyes hollow as she looked up from a stack of unorganized ledgers. When she saw me standing in the doorway, she froze, her ink-stained fingers trembling over the paper.