Ezra POV
She left.
I fell to my knees on the grass as my entire body felt like the air had been sucked out of it. I couldn’t breathe. My lungs are gasping for air as I fight to keep control of my emotions. I scrunched the note she left me on the pillow up in my fist as I released the loudest roar that shakes the leaves above me in the trees.
It was not long until I felt the presence of people behind me. Clearly, my ear-slitting roar woke them all.
“Ezra?” I felt my mother’s hand on my shoulder as I breathed rapidly, closing my eyes to try and calm myself. “What’s happened?”
“They’ve gone,” Madeline’s voice came quietly from behind me and I turned to glare at her.
“You knew?”
She nodded slowly. “I tried to talk them out of it but there is no stopping them when they have set the
