Astrid could not sleep all through the night. Belle’s words kept playing in her head over and over again. Zane had pardoned her, she wasn’t even going to walk the walk of shame, it was all a lie, Belle lied to her.
The woman she sees as her mother lied to her, sent her away to save her real daughter, she doesn’t know how to explain the pain she is feeling.
No matter how much she tries to justify Belle’s reasons in her head, it hurts her to know that the past six years of her life could have gone much different.
She is grateful for how it turned out, she found Marlon, she found love again, her kids did alright, they grew up fine but what if none of that happened, there were so many horrors that scared her as she left the moonstone pack those years ago, so many cruel things that could ha
