Rowan’s eyes were distant, his voice trembling as he spoke, pain etched into every crease of his face as the tears fell freely.
‘Rowan you don’t need to keep going’ Riley called softly as he reached through the bars, trying to rest his hand on the warrior’s shoulder.
Rowan shook his head, ‘no, she needs to know, she needs to understand why I did it so she can move on with Nate’ he whispered brokenly.
Clearing his throat of the lump that was forming, the warrior continued, ‘I was so happy to see her, I didn’t know why she was here, so far from our home, but she was alive and in front of me after seven long years. As she looked up at me, my eyes wandered to her right eye and the large bluish black bruise that decorated her socket, it couldn’t have been more than a day old.
I was so angr
