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:
together, Ethan, and let
the eyes for a moment,
murmured– to myself, and
to take her by
you talking about?! You know Rosalie. Do
“But
looked at the envelope on the table.
disbelief.
herself back up and sneered. “If that‘s what you think,
***
had not lit a lamp, but the moon filled my room with
I‘d run out of whisky,
the table, and my eyes
familiar handwriting. I could almost smell
What did she write?
hateful words telling me what a monster I
was probably right, Rosalie
last, after the hours–long standoff, I reached for the letter. My fingers trembled slightly as I picked
a deep breath, I ripped the envelope
“My Dear Ethan,
to call
probably never knew, but I have kissed your brow secretly while you were asleep next
me with a mate who cherished me, protected me, and took all the
thought I would meet you. Maybe it sounds silly,
love at the first
arrived at your pack, the rain pouring down; I remember your scent when you
about you, I
me silly. My love for you was so humble that it dared not make
cold tones, your sleeping face, and even your angry
all that
were the
the dream was,
wake up, no matter
you have an imminent war and
past, now my presence, I’m afraid,
aches whenever
to see you torn
for you, then let me be the one to take
gone, but my love
not look for us. Our child and I will be with the
Please stay strong and be
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