How much can love save?
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Leila is torn between keeping away from her mate and saving her Pack. She believes staying away from him is best for the both of them. But the only way she stands a chance at protecting the people she loves is if she accept...
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~NICK
There was nothing in this world that could describe what I felt. Frustrated wasn't the word. Angry...afraid...broken...all the negative words, nothing better described what I felt at that moment. At the moment I learned my daughter was missing, every morning that came with no clue, every night with nothing that's changed. But the moment Leila found out about it...
I wanted to disappear into an empty void, somewhere I stopped feeling, somewhere this didn't exist.
How could I have known?
Rey was fine. She looked totally okay and that should've been a sign...
But how could I have known?
I'm not trying to throw the blame at anyone. I don't want to blame anyone, because, I had promised I'd take care of her. I had promised to keep her safe. But now I knew nothing about where she was, who she was with, whether she was alive or...
I didn't want to think about it.
But yet again, how could I have known?
How could I have known, when she woke up so excited and determined to go on an adventure - as she had told me?
How could I have known, when she gave me a kiss and told me she loved me as much as she loved mommy?
I should have stayed with her. I should've asked if she was okay with everything that was happening to her mother. I should've asked her about the adventure, instead of thinking it was a child's game.
Last night, I spent the whole of it on Leila, who mourned in her room, holding her daughter's clothes and talking to them. She cried and screamed like a mad person, she didn't even want to see me. I sat outside her door and Rachel tried to calm her down. I didn't want to leave her alone after what happened. My mother knew better than to ask me to go to bed.
Ana knew better.
I didn't know how but amidst everything, I think I fell asleep. Because I woke up with my back on the wall, my head hanging forward and my ass on the ground. My back muscles screamed when I stretched up.
I got to my feet and realized the door was open. I slowly walked inside but Leila wasn't in bed. She must've woken up because the bed was still a mess and the sheets were thrown off. Rachel was on the couch, still asleep. I walked to her and held her shoulder. She was startled awake, then her eyes looked at where Leila was supposed to be asleep.
"Where's..." She looked at me.
"I didn't find her on the bed."
"The bathroom?"
"I didn't check. I feared she would...you know. That's why I woke you."
