Alessia.
" Goodbye, Sadie!"
'Goodbye, Sadie.'
' Sadie.'
Those were the last words that slipped past Drake's lips before distance created a barrier between us, as our plane soared high into the sky. But Sadie, that name stuck.
'Sadie. '
I repeated it, over and over, trying to test its familiarity on my lips. It wasn't a new name. It wasn't foreign to my lips either.
It was my name, after all, but not many knew about it. Not even my late father, not Ron, not Elara, and certainly, not Cora, Elara's mother and Ron's mate.
Even Lucian, my once-upon-a-time, heartbeat didn't know about it, never knew about it. It was supposed to be a secret, after all. It was only supposed to remain between me and my mom.
My late mother gave that name to me.
It was a secret, shared between two
