Valerie

Wasn't it funny how one single moment could alter everything? Suddenly, every other worry felt like grains of sand against an hourglass, too small and paltry to be bothered with.

I had felt that several times already. Once, shortly after I was reborn and decided to leave. The other, when Tristan bled out unconscious, making me abandon all my boundaries and the third, when he told me he loved me.

Of all of them, this was the most painful one.

I stood frozen, my eyes locked on Tristan's ...