Sarah

Everything hurts. My head feels like someone took a hammer to it.

I open my eyes to slits and quickly close them again. Pain rushes through me in waves like it has its own tide, and my breath is driving the current.

I know where I am. Sydney’s scent is everywhere.

I tried to leave him. I really did try. I thought it was what I was supposed to do to protect him and our son, but the Goddess laughed in my face, didn’t She?

I slowly turn my head to the only source of light I can find and carefully open my eyes again.

Sydney’s sitting at a...