~Aiyana~
The Blue Suite was beautiful. It was also the loneliest place I'd ever been.
I sat on the edge of the bed and stared out at the windows. It was already morning, and I hadn't slept a single minute.
My eyes burned, not from exhaustion, though that was certainly part of it; but from the tears I'd been holding back since the moment Lucien had found me in those woods. The tears I'd swallowed down through every sarcastic comment, every joke about murder palaces and no-murder clauses.
The tears that had finally won the moment that blue door clicked shut behind me.
I'd cried until my throat was raw, my chest ached and my pillows were soaked. I'd cried for the mate who betrayed me, for the father who didn't believe me, for the pack that had watched me leave without a single voice rais
