Chapter 54

(Kaeleigh’s POV)

It wasn’t until I saw Jeremy’s reaction, and then Elaina breaking down right there on the floor, that I realised that I still didn’t quite believe it. I was stopping it from sinking in, protecting myself from the hurt. But seeing their confirmation, that was enough. I ran to the cell, and he smiled at me before I hugged him through the bars.

“It’s you,” I cried. “It’s really you?” 

“Yeah, it’s me,” he held me tight, and I buried my head in his shoulder, and breathed in the scent that I hadn’t smelt in over nineteen years, that I thought I would never smell again.

“I didn’t want to believe it, until I knew for certain,”