NovelEnglish136 Chapter 136
Seraphina’s POV 1
| stood at the bus stop three blocks from our house. My hands were shaking. My whole body was shaking.
What the hell did | just do?
The bus wasn’t coming for another fifteen minutes. | kept looking back down the street, toward our
neighborhood. Toward the house
where Lily was sleeping in her crib, not knowing her mother just walked out on her.
My throat burned. | wanted to cry, but the tears wouldn't come. It was like my body had shut down completely.
*Move, | told myself. *You wrote the letter. You made the choice. Now move. *
But where was | supposed to go?
I hadn’t thought about that part. I'd been so focused on leaving, on doing the right thing, that | never planned
what cnext. Now |
was standing here like an idiot at a bus stop, with nowhere to go and no idea what to do.
The small bag in my hand felt impossibly heavy. Just a few clothes, scash I'd saved up, my phone.
Everything | owned now fit in one
little overnight bag.
| couldn’t go to Ophelia’s. That would be the first place Damien looked. And Ophelia would take one look at me
and demand answers.
She'd probably call Damien herself once she found out what I'd done.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt| couldn’t go north. The rogue wolves were still out there. Without Ayla, I'd be dead within hours.
So where? Where does a human woman with no plan and no future go?
My phone buzzed. My heart jumped so hard it hurt.
*Damien.*
But when | looked at the screen, it was just spam. Sstupid robocall about car insurance.
I'd blocked Damien’s number before | left. It was the only way to be sure | wouldn't answer when he called.
Because | would answer. |
was weak like that.
The thought of him finding my letter made my stomach twist into knots. He was probably reading it right now.
Probably callingevery
nin the book. Probably realizing | was right about everything.
Or maybe he was relieved. Maybe this was easier for him. Now he didn’t have to pretend | was enough anymore,
The bus finally arrived with a loud hiss of brakes. The doors opened and | climbed on, dropping my fare into the
slot. The driver barely looked at me. Just another passenger going somewhere.
| found a seat near the back and pressed my face against the window. The bus pulled away from the stop,
carryingfurther from
everything I'd ever loved.
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We drove past the coffee shop where Damien and | had our first date. Past the park where Adrian learned to ride
his bike. Past the clinic
where | gave birth to Lily.
Everything looked so normal. So peaceful.
I wanted to scream.
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Each mile tookfurther from my children. My chest felt like someone was squeezing it in a vise.
*This is for them, * | kept telling myself. *This is the right thing.*
But it didn’t feel right. It felt like dying.
| had to get off at the next stop because | couldn't breathe anymore. The bus pulled away, leavingstanding
alone on a street corner in
a town | didn’t recognize.
1 found a small diner and ordered coffee. The waitress was human. She smiled atand asked if | wanted
cream. Normal human
interaction.
*That'snow, * | thought.
The coffee tasted like dirt, but it was hot. It gavesomething to focus on besides the hole in my chest where
my heart used to be.
A businessman at the next table was talking loudly on his phone about quarterly reports and market projections.
How was | supposed to do this? How was | supposed to live in a world I'd never really belonged to?
| watched the people around me. A mother with two young kids, trying to keep them from spilling their juice
boxes. An elderly couple
sharing a piece of pie. A teenage girl texting furiously while her food got cold.
Normal. All of them so beautifully, perfectly normal.
| used to think normal was boring. When | was with Damien, when | was part of the pack, normal seemed like
settling for less. Now it
looked like peace.
My phone buzzed again.
This time, | almost dropped it.
The non the screen made my heart stop.
Caleb.
My hands were shaking as | opened the message.
*"Sera! Long tno see, how are you lately?!"*
| stared at the words until they blurred together,
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