The silence in this tiny room is deafening once Marcus leaves. Slade remains standing, staring mindlessly at the ground while I just sit and contemplate the life decisions that brought me here.
I thought I had it all once upon a time. I had the life I thought I always dreamt of. The mate, the home, the career path. All of it was in the palm of my hand, but it didn’t fulfil me the way that I thought it would.
Boredom seeped through the perfect façade, and eventually, I grew resentful. Then loss after loss after loss coated me in a thick layer of depression until I couldn’t take it anymore.
When I received that letter, I thought the Goddess had answered my prayers. She’d given me a way out of the life I no longer wanted and into something so much bigger. I struggled with the grappling
