chapter 162 Sixty
Evelyn’s POV
I couldn’t understand, nothing to me made sense. I just couldn’t fathom something as tragic as this
could happen to her. I never in my wildest dreams could picture Amara being gone. It didn’t feel real,
like a bad dream I was yet to wake up from.
When we got home, Thaddeus was nowhere to be seen, yet I could feel his heartbreak, his guilt.
Nothingpared to the agony of his tortured soul. No amount of pain I had ever endure measured up
to the feelings that swirled within him.
“What’s taking him so long?” Imogen said pacing around the loungeroom. Her tears looked like
they were permanently etched into her grief-stricken face. Looking at my daughter squirming in my
arms, I couldn’t imagine the heart ache she was feeling. I had only been a mother for a few hours and
knew without a doubt I would lie my life down without hesitation for her. Give up everything and
everyone for her in a heartbeat.
“He will bring her back, love,” Tobias says pulling on a pair of pants Orion had handed him. Theo
stood staring out the window lost in his thoughts, the air in the room so cold and empty despite being
overcrowded. Nothing but silence as we all waited, waited for someone to wake us from this nightmare
I felt we were forever trapped in.
Rnd sitting on the bottom of the steps, his guilt gnawing at me as I looked over at him, Orion
giving him a worried look before approaching him. His wounds still weren’t healing, blood dripping onto
the floor staining the ground, the smell of his blood lost all appeal to me, I was numb with shock.
The shrieking of our daughter’s cries were the only noise to be heard when Orion walks over
holding his arms out, and I ce her in them. He walks into the kitchen and I hear him rummaging
around for form to feed her hungry belly.
Moving over to Rnd, I grip his arm pulling him to his feet when he shakes me off. My temper
ring at seeing him wallowing in guilt. I understood his pain, yet she didn’t die saving him for him to
drop dead from his own stubbornness.
“Amara didn’t give up her life for you to bleed out on the floor, now get up,” I snap my voice
harsher than I wanted as I tried to contain my emotions. Imogen and Tobias heads snap over to me
where I stood at his feet.
“Evelyn is right dear, no one else needs to lose their life today,” Imogen says, her voice shaking as
she walks over to him and grabs his face, forcing her look up at him. How she was able to hold it
together and not me him was beyond me. I wish I could be as soothing as she was despite how
much she had endured today.
“Amara wouldn’t want you in pain, let your mate help you.”
“She died for me Ma, I can’t live with that,“ he whispers before cing his head in his hands and
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crying, his body heaving as his words reverberated around the room hitting him harder at the
realisation.
“I have lost one child already; I won’t lose another. Now get up and get cleaned up while we wait
for Thaddeus to return,” she tells him. Orion walks out with our daughter in his arms, I could hear her
hungrily slurping on her bottle, gulping it down. Imogen looks over at him.
“Don’t let her gulp it, she will bring it back up,” Imogen says and no sooner than she said it she
spewed over the front of the nket she was wrapped in. Orion stared down at her; his face worried
before Theo walked over.
“Here I will feed her, Hun. Go find her some clothes and a nappy. Orion, go help Evelyn with
Rnd” Theo orders. Orion hands our daughter over before grabbing Rnd, forcing him to his feet
and hauling him up the stairs. Tobias and Imogen following before turning into the nursery, and I could
see they needed the distraction over everything that happened, something to distract them from the
pain and right now that was our daughter, and I wasn’t going to say no them, they knew what they were
doing more so than any of us.
Turning the shower on, Orion helps me strip off Rnd and I push him in the shower, he stands
there staring off at the tiled wall.
“I broke him,” Rnd says making me look at him and I realise he was talking about Thaddeus
who’s emotions were so strong they were almost suffocating us.
“He just needs time. It was his sister” Orion whispers and I noticed he too was trying to keep
himself together was just better at hiding his true feelings.
“I just don’t understand how it’s possible, aren’t you all immortal?” I ask, hating that I couldn’t
understand any of this, maybe understanding would make it easier.
“She burnt herself out, her magic she used everything, when the bomb went off….. when it went
off, I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t burning till I looked up and saw her standing there taking it all,
absorbing it so it didn’t touch me” He chokes before copsing on the ground in a heap, his head going
to his knees as sobs wracked his body.
“Amara’s magic is tied to her immortality, Thaddeus’s isn’t. His is different like mine it has a life
force of its own, Amara’s burnt out and so did she” Imogen says, leaning against the door frame. Guilt
hitting me that she overheard us talking. She must have read it on my face as she shakes her head,
her eyes teary.
“It’s okay Evie, I know you have questions. As sick as it sounds, I am all too familiar with death, I
just wasn’t expecting it to be my own daughter’s,” she says, looking up at the ceiling willing her tears to
go.
“This is going to destroy him“ she says shaking her head and I realised she was good at shoving
her emotions back now that she was over her initial shock, she was stronger than I ever could be if our
roles were reversed, I would have preferred death then be without my child.
Imogen’s phone rings and she nces down at it in her hand, a hupped sob leaving her lips.
“I need to take this, it’s my sister” she says, and I could hear the unspoken emotion she was trying
to hide as she continued to look at the screen. She answers it but says nothing but looks to the ceiling
fanning her eyes with her other hand before taking a deep breath.
“Hey sis” Is all she says, as she struggled to find the words to tell her sister her niece was gone.
Imogen walks out leaving us.