Chapter 83: Odessa’s POV
The forest took Reika’s child.
No... I took Reika’s child.
I was there when it happened.. when her scream shattered the night sky and folded the world in on itself. I held her trembling and rigid body, stained with blood and grief, her pain was carved into me like a second heartbeat. I had never seen death arrive so silently, or with such cruelty.
And it was all my fault, it was all because I wanted to follow a path that was never mine to begin with... Love.
After that night, something inside her went cold. She moved like glass very brittle and clear, like you could see through her if you stared long enough.
And something in me... Broke and hardened.
Two days after Reika and I buried what we believed was her child beneath the wolfthorn tree, I said yes to m
