Chapter 214

Madeleine

My eyes adjusted to the dim light outside that was a bit brighter than the cave and the view of my home greeted me.

My home.

The property I and Hayden had selected to live forever…happily ever after.

That also brought back the painful memory that it was going to be my wedding gift. In a week, from a recently married girl, I had become a mateless widow.

Despite knowing that I would get no reaction, my eyes flicked to Hayden. If he could recall what this place had meant to us…of what it was going to be to us…our future.

I blinked back tears and looked at the ground. This was the very place from which he had taken me inside, dragged me to the underground with him.

And, this place was the starting point of his return. The very place where Amanda had realized his presence and the occultists did their rituals to raise him.

Obviously, this place would mean a lot to him too. It was funny how one single place could have such polar opposite meanings for two different beings.

To me, it