28. Final Confrontation part One . . . Fia was gone, Fia was gone, those words chanting in my head like a broken painful record, Nadine was holding me still I felt numb and utterly defeated, my mind was frozen and my body had followed suit. Reed face read devastation, tears rolled down his cheeks effortlessly while I struggled to process the reality before me. Images of Fia ran through my mind all at once hitting me like a slap on my face. I have failed, I have lost the war before it even began. I head whimpers in my ears and it takes a while for me to realize that I was the one making those sounds, then the tears started and began falling freely from my eyes. “Althea, I am so sorry” Nadine cooed “But it is not” my words comes out in cracks, I was choking on my tears but I did no

