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The sheets on Sarah’s bed still smelt of her. It was faint but still there. The scent of her perfume lingering on them and under it the smell of her skin. That rich but sweet chocolatey aroma that sent me wild.
It wasn’t sending me wild now, it was pulling me into a black pit of despair. One that I doubted I would ever get out of.
She was gone.
I had sent her away, given her the chance to live a happy and fulfilled life with another man. A man who would raise my son.
I knew I had done the right thing, but it didn’t make it any easier to bear. I had given them a chance, whether we won against the council or whether we died by tooth and claw I had given them the best possible chance. And yet I couldn’t seem to shake the feeling of dread that was filling me.
I wasn’t afraid of dyi
