Chapter 48
MYRA
Back into my room, I slipped under the covers and stayed there for hours, hiding. I silently cried there for a while, unable to stop myself. The memories from those dark days came back in waves, shaking me to the core.
It was all I could think of for the rest of the night. I remembered the day when the officials from the orphanage had shown up to take me back. I had never felt such a soul-crushing disappointment and hurt before. I felt cosmically abandoned. As if no one ever wanted me and would never want me ever.
It was the first time I had felt something so intensely. Sure, I had been abandoned by two lovers as they found their mates, but feeling that intense emotion for the first time while I was still a kid changed me forever.
But apart from my pain, I kept thinki
