Seraphina:
I didn’t expect it to hurt like this.
That was the part I hated most.
The fact that hearing the child being born, that she was still here, like everything that I believed would be true only turned out to be nothing more than a plain lie… it hurt me more than I would have dared to admit.
The room felt too small, too quiet, the walls closing in as I stood frozen near the dresser, staring at nothing. My reflection in the mirror looked wrong, eyes rimmed red, shoulders tense, lips pressed together like holding back a scream.
I had lost.
Not just Alexander.
Everything I thought I was entitled to.
Everything that I spent years fighting for, trying to earn, to claim… I just lost it all… and for what? A f****d up one nightstand.
My chest tightened, breath hitching before I cou
