Chapter 78


    Gannon pov


    Weeks Later


    Ever once Tandi came back and we learned the horrors she endured after she was removed from the


    orphanage, Abbie seemed to have some form of survivor’s guilt, she had been working herself to the


    bone daly Taking Tyson with her everywhere she went Helping Tandi with settling into the castle, she


    hadn’t been sleeping and was always cleaning,


    Abbie and I were constantly fighting over Tyson and her working so much as I tried to understand what


    was going on with her. When one day, she snapped. She told me it was her fault Tandi got in trouble


    that day, that if she hadn’t asked Tandi to defend Azalea, she never would have ended up in the


    brothel. She never would have been sent away. Despite her thoughts being unreasonable, she solely


    believed she was responsible for what happened to Tandi. Even after Tandi told her multiple times, it


    would have been that way anyway, that no matter what happened that day she would have ended up


    there


    Tandi had told her Alpha Brock had always intended to sell her off. Abbie, however, refused to believe


    her, and I knew her hearing the stories of Tandi’s sufferings had brought back memories of her own.


    She hardly slept, and I was forced to drug her a couple of times just to make her sleep because she


    was bing increasingly unstable, her mind more fragile with each passing day. Her thought


    patterns were toxic and her erratic behavior was beginning to worry me.


    I wanted to tell Azalea and the King yet I also knew they had a lot going on themselves and no one else


    seemed to notice the change in her, except Liam andme. It was almost like she put on a show for


    everyone, pretending to be holding herself together. I had always known sooner orter she would


    break after she came back from Kade, I just didn’t think it would be guilt for another she broke


    Over


    I thought she needed time to heal, but I was beginning to wonder if she needed professional help. Help


    I couldn’t give her because as the days slipped by repetition she seemed to live by, almost as if she


    was on autopilot,


    “Abbie, you promised he would sleep in his room tonight,” I tell her as she tucks Tyson into bed. Our


    bed.


    She promises the same thing every night. The few times she did put him in his bed, she paced the halls


    or waited for me to fall asleep before sneaking into his room so she could be near him. A few times I


    even awoke to herying by the firece with him or on the couch. Yet the more I pushed, the more


    distant she seemed to be, the more unstable.


    I was getting nowhere with her it seemed, and it was starting to piss me off because it was as if she


    wasn‘t even trying, I had be a piece of the furniture in her existence, just someone that was


    always there. Kind of like Tyson’sfort nket. He always had it, couldn’t go without but at the


    same time didn’t want it, especially when he would get tangled up in it.


    “Tomorrow night, I promise,” she tells me. Yet tomorrow never seemed toe.


    “You promised yesterday,” I tell her, but she shakes her head.


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    “No, I didn’t,” she says, her brows furrowed in confusion. That was another thing I noticed. She seemed


    to be having memorypses and losing time. I often wondered where her mind took her, but at the


    same time, I also didn’t want to know because I could tell wherever it was, it haunted her.


    “Abbie, his own room, I want to sleep with my mate. I am sick of being kicked,” I tell her, reaching for


    him. She rips the nket back up that I pulled away. I tossed my arms up in the air bing fed up.


    “No, he stays. What if someone takes him, or what if he wanders off?” she tried to tell me. I was so sick


    of the excuses. There wasn’t an excuse she hadn’t given me.


    “No, Abbie. You know he can’t get out, this ce is secured, and Liam and Dustin and every other


    guard know to watch him and keep an eye out for him. He is perfectly safe,” I remind her, and she


    watches me as I scoop him up. Yet the look on her face makes me growl before setting him back down


    when I see her lips start quivering and the fearful look on her face.


    “I am over this shit, every goddamn night with you!” I tell her before storming off and out of the room.


    She won’t sleep in the bed unless he is in it and it is driving me up the wall. I have never done anything


    to warrant her fear of me when ites to the damn bedroom. She knows I would never force her to


    do anything she isn’tfortable with, yet still, she fears me sleeping beside her.


    “Gannon? Wait! Where are you going?” she panics as I reach for the door, at the same time, she grabs


    my arm. I shake her hand off, pushing the door open.


    “I need to go; I wille backter. Just leave me be, Abbie,” I tell her, knowing if I stayed, I would say


    something I would surely regret. Instead, I go find Liam, needing to vent my frustrations because right


    now, I was at my wit’s end with her.


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