🗝️Detective Ryker Viltarin must uncover dark secrets before he loses not only his heart but also his life.🗝️
You're on your own, far from home
The wind is blowing in the top of the pines
A gloomy sky where the sun never shines
Deep...
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Dark clouds had gathered in the night sky, and the fierce wind carried the certainty of an approaching autumn storm. It was almost as if the weather wanted to reflect the mood in the hut and shed its tears over it. The drops pattered on the window panes and flowed in small, blurry rivulets. Again and again, it thundered, and the weather light sent its brief glow into the room's darkness.
Eve was tired.
Dead tired, to be precise, and yet she couldn't sleep. After what had happened in the afternoon, she had initially set about venting the seething pressure inside her with anger and disappointment in her stomach.
She ... just had to be angry. That was easier than giving in to the pain because then she would surely have collapsed. Anger, rage, and disappointment fueled her like coal on a fire, which was necessary because she had to function. Liam wasn't allowed to see what had happened. To explain it all to him, more or less, she would sort herself out first.
So the young mother had cleaned all possible remote corners of the house, cooked dinner - this time only for four people - and then put Liam to bed earlier than usual. Either the boy sensed that she was upset, or the exhaustion of the exhausting day was taking its toll, so Liam didn't strain her thin nerves any further and allowed himself to be put to bed in an unusually obedient manner. Of course, it didn't escape her notice that Riona had brought Ryker a plate of dinner to her room, that little traitor. But Eve didn't feel like arguing with her about it now.
So she retreated to her last little refuge: the room that had become her new home. It was her little realm, space for her and only her, her desires and passions, a place she could start anew.
As Eve, not as Kaylen.
But this dream burst like a soap bubble, and that thought broke the dam. Instead of anger, she ended up venting all her pain. Eve felt betrayed, humiliated, and lied to, and she was so incredibly tired of it. Her heart felt broken a thousand times over as if every splinter was now so small that it could fit through the eye of a needle.
The worst thing was that something inside her wanted to listen to Ray and believe him. She wanted to hear his justification, and her heart wished she could forgive him. But she wasn't supposed to, no... she wasn't allowed to.
