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."

a little. I could hear the pain in his voice. "Your

don't understand." His hands flexed, and

frustrated.

pretty lost right now." I looked down at the letters. "I don't even know why or when they started. And by the looks

swallow again. "Over

I snapped up. "What?"

a letter every week since your heat." He looked out the windshield, avoiding my gaze. "I lost

his shoulder. “I stopped counting because every day I saw

another letter and noticed there was a tiny number on the top of this

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

looked at

he stopped." My throat hurt. I sat back and felt the

My heart felt like my ribs

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grew blurry, and my breathing

far away I barely

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fighting, but still he stared at me. I felt the cold take over my

down at the letter and the

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 towards me, but

alone