Chapter 70 Her Letter
“Ethan!” Georgia burst into my room.
I took a sip of whisky and looked up. “I thought you were going back to Drogomor.”
“What I do is none of your business! Talon told me, how much did you f*cking drink?”
“Do you need me for anything?”
“I need you to stop all the crap you‘re doing, okay?” she said bluntly. “There‘s a war out there, and you…”
“I what? I didn‘t miss any report, I didn‘t make any irrational decisions. I‘ve been handling every responsibility just fine. So would you people just leave me alone?!”
She looked at me quietly for a moment.
I thought she would curse, but instead, she said calmly, “Ethan, she’s gone. Just let her go peacefully.”
My narrowed eyes snapped open. Fury rushed through me. Not at her, but at myself.
“What do you know?! Enough!” | roared.
She would never understand. I was the cause of Rosalie‘s death. How could I let go of that?!
Georgia sneered. “I know that she‘s gone and you need to move on! Look at you, what a f*cking mess you are!”
“Watch how you speak, Georgia.” I growled in my alcohol –addled state of mind and glared at her with fury.
“Or what? Are you going to ship us away again, like you did all those years ago?” she raged. “Or like how you took a vow to the Goddess and abandoned your mate sense when you turned twenty–one?!”
I noticed that her eyes were red.
“Did any of that f*cking help at all, Ethan? No, it didn‘t! If you hadn‘t sent us away, Soren would still be here today! If you hadn‘t abandoned your mate sense, you might have realized how important Rosalie was…”
Was she about to cry? I couldn‘t remember the last time I saw my sister like this…
I couldn‘t argue with her at all. I felt like my brain was filled with fog; I couldn‘t reason through anything right
now.
The choices I had made… were they all wrong?
My head hurt, and I reached for the amber liquor again.
But Georgia was faster than me. She snatched the glass from my hand and finished her speech:
Ethan, and let your
her in the eyes for
murmured– to
to take her
You know Rosalie. Do you think she would ever say
“But she
the envelope on the
in disbelief. “You
what you
***
dark. I had not lit a lamp, but the moon filled my room with a soft, ghostly
run out of whisky, and it was starting to wear
envelope lay on the table, and my
could almost smell her faint scent coming off
What did she write?
words telling me what a
Georgia was probably right, Rosalie was
I reached for the letter. My fingers trembled slightly as I
deep breath, I ripped the envelope open,
“My Dear Ethan,
allow me to call
your brow furrowed as usual? You probably never knew, but I have kissed your brow secretly while you were asleep next to me so
me, and took all the miseries
it
love at the first sight
I remember your scent when you first approached me; I remember the cold hospital light reflecting off
you,
think me silly. My love for you was so humble that it
your cold tones, your sleeping face, and even your
love all that you gave
spent with you were the
the dream was, it was still
had to wake up, no matter
you have an imminent war and
though my company may have brought you a little comfort in the past, now my presence, I’m afraid, has become more
whenever I
I don‘t want to see you torn between me and
let me be
but my love will always
will be with the Moon Goddess,
dear Ethan. Please stay
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