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Ciara cried until she was numb as she recalled the feeling of the cord between Jake and herself breaking after he said his rejection words and the way it fell apart after she repeated the rejection words.
She couldn’t stop shivering because she felt cold and alone. The one person the goddess had supposedly chosen for her, the only person she had ever made any form of connection with, had rejected her because of her blindness.
If even the true mate chosen by the goddess rejected her, then how would any Prince Charming save her as Rapunzel’s prince saved her?
Ciara had always felt lonely, but today, as she sat alone, she truly felt like a nonentity, like a thing that had no use in life, a good-for-nothing that only burdened people and caused people to hate it. She now understood why Va
