NATALIA
Several days passed in a slow, unchanging haze. I didn’t leave the city, didn’t pack up and vanish like I should have done the moment the siblings left.
I just stayed and waited. Every creak of the shop door, every sound outside after midnight, my body would tense up, expecting someone from my birth pack to barge in, or worse, Tristan himself to come and end me.
So much that I don’t remember the last time I had a decent sleep. At first, I was nervous, but now all I feel is…nothing. I just feel empty.
I’ve lost all my will to live after that.
At first, I thought Xavier just succeeded in holding Kyline back. She’d surely do anything to see me punished after what I did to her. She’s already vengeful, to begin with. Now that I raised my hands to defy her, she was definitely seethi
