|Nieves|
Later that night, I broke down.
The weight of the silence pressed against me, thick and suffocating, wrapping around me like an unseen force determined to pull me under. My chest ached with a pain so raw and relentless it felt as if it would never end. Tears came unchecked, hot streaks sliding down my face, soaking my trembling hands.
And I knew that no matter how much I cried, the truth remained unchanged.
Reality had finally settled in, cold and unforgiving.
My pack.
My family.
Everyone I had ever loved—they were gone. Buried beneath the very earth I now sat upon, stolen by the cruelty of the Clarksons. The pain wasn’t new, but tonight felt different. It wasn’t like those first nights after I learned of their deaths—those nights when the grief had been unbearable, whe
