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."

the pain in his voice. "Your feeling guilty?" I asked, but I already knew

don't understand." His hands

frustrated.

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

heard Sterling swallow

I snapped up. "What?"

a letter every week since your heat." He looked out the windshield,

lie.” He wiped his face on his shoulder. “I stopped counting because every day I saw the pile grow bigger,

and noticed there was a tiny number on the

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

he looked at the

I sat back

My heart felt

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it. Everything grew blurry, and

voice was so far away I barely heard

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flashed back to the night Carl died. Rowan kneeling in the dirt and blood. Hurt and bleeding from the fighting, but still he stared at me. I felt the cold take

the letter and

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 towards me, but then

alone