Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Is a mistake from the Moon Goddess 439

Chapter 439

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"What the fuck..." I felt like my world was crashing down on me. My head was full of his words and I was confused to how we even got here. I turned to face Sterling, and he was clearly avoiding my gaze. "Sterling."

He looked over at me finally, and I could see the truth behind his eyes. "Yeah?"

"Have you read any of these?" I dropped the letter into the box. My gaze fell back

to the box between my feet and I counted over

fifty letters...maybe more. "How long has he been sending these?" 1

Sterling closed his eyes for a second, like he was trying to come up with an answer that wouldn't break me. His hand tightened on

the steering wheel. "No, like I said, I haven't read anything that was sent to you." He swallowed. "They were meant for your eyes

only, and even if we couldn't give them to you, we were going to invade your and Rowan's privacy."

I felt my eyes tighten. "But?"

He sighed. “But I saw him whenever he dropped off the letters. He was becoming more and more desperate for you to answer."

He looked like he might get sick. "I wanted to tell him. About the fact you weren't answering because you didn't know, but I

couldn't."

pain in his voice. "Your feeling guilty?" I

yes." He glanced at me. "You don't understand." His hands flexed, and I could tell

frustrated.

to me because I'm pretty lost right now." I looked down at the letters. "I don't even know why or when they started. And by the looks of it, he sent quite a few." I bent down and tried to count them. "How many are even

heard Sterling swallow again. "Over

I snapped up. "What?"

since your heat." He looked out the

“I stopped counting because every day I saw the pile grow bigger,

a tiny number on the

with after the second letter." He squeezed the wheel. "He thought that if we ever got to give you them, this way you could keep track of their order. So anytime he gave us a letter for you, we numbered it and dropped it into a pile. Once the pile got too big for the drawer, we dumped them into a box." He looked down at the box between my legs. "We upgraded to the bigger box a few months ago. We thought he was going to keep

he looked at the

I sat back and felt the

top of me. My heart

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Everything grew blurry, and my

His voice was so far away

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but still he stared at me. I felt the cold take over my body as I remembered his eyes begging me. 'Let

letter and the truth

was mad because he was supposed to wait for me. My eyes snagged on the bottom line. Remember, I love you and only you. My heart squeezed. He had waited. The sob broke free faster than I thought. Sterling's head snapped

alone