Chapter 99: Home’s Calling

Maya Three days. Three days without the man I loved by my side. If the attack hadn’t happened, these would’ve been the first three days of us as a married couple. Three days since our vows. The first three days of our eternity together. But reality had other plans. Instead, today marked three days of an unbridgeable distance—six feet of separation that felt like a chasm too vast to cross. Six feet had never felt so far. It was a cruel irony how those six feet symbolized a lifetime—a lifetime snatched away, leaving me with nothing but aching memories. He was gone and he’d never be back. I’d never have him ever again. He was taken away from me…forever. I wanted to cross those six feet though. To swim, run, crawl, fly—anything to close the gap between us. But no matter how much I longed for it, the reality of the cold earth that separated us remained. From the window, I watched Jackson playing cricket with his grandfather, Alpha Alaric. It was almost amusing to see the way Alaric intentio