Everly POV
All night I couldn't sleep. Valen wouldn't answer any of my texts and shoved me out whenever I tried to mind-link him. His silence was driving me insane, and I worried about Valarian. He sounded upset on the phone and wanted to come home, but I managed to calm him down enough and told him I would pick him up from school. Valen didn't object, so I figured he was okay with that, or at least I hoped he was.
Throughout the night, I obsessed over the horrible s**t that was portrayed on the news, saying Valen and I were fighting because he was cheating on me, that he finally realized Valarian wasn't his son. It was all bullshit. I knew it, they knew it, but they would do whatever they could do to sell a story.
The bed felt too big without Valen in it, cold and empty, the house to
