CALDER
“Remi, tell me they’re alive. Tell me you’re lying,” I pleaded with her as she took her place to fight the monster that was trying to take everything away from us.
She wouldn’t answer me. No matter how many times I pleaded. No matter how I asked. She wouldn’t tell me. The weight on my chest felt like I’d never take in a full breath again. Cerys was injured, Remi was about to fight for our lives, and my sons were…
“I’m going to trust that you have a reason for not answering me, but we’re going to get through this fight together.”
“I can do this,” she insisted. I didn’t feel any doubt from her, and it gave me hope. “I feel it.
“You can do this,” I insisted. “He will underestimate you, and you can use that.”
“I have to do this,” she said, her chin dipping slightly.
We’d train
