Chapter 103: The Nightmare

XENOIS

The nightmare clung to me tightly despite the fact that I was regaining conscience slowly but surely.

In my dream, I had lost everything – Ollie died from neglect and from a heart attack that I couldn't stop on time, Luna's heart giving out from the severed mate bond, both of them gone because I had chosen Riley's birthday party over my own family.

The guilt and devastation felt so real that even as I began to wake, part of me believed it was true.

I could still hear Luna's final words echoing in my mind, as I held her dying body begging her to...