I stood there, staring at the place where my husband had been, hands still grasping the empty air, heart collapsed in my chest. It wasn't until something nudged my hip I looked down, breaking the spell I'd created around myself, a moment in which I could believe what happened hadn't just.

Galleytrot's dark eyes burned with red fire as he growled softly. "Syd," he said. "How could you?" And padded away toward the kid's rooms, leaving me to ...