*Summer*

Somehow, I manage to keep myself together until we enter my rooms, and then I lose my

way, sinking down onto the floor, no strength left to me. “I didn’t think I would ever see it or find it, but I have always thought that at least it lived”.

Great, gulping sobs break free of my chest, bringing with it such pain that I do not know how I will survive it.

I am aware of him lifting me into his arms and carrying me across the room into the bedchamber. Gently, he places me on the bed, and I curl into a ball of anguish.

“I hate her....