38 - New Beginnings

MORDECAI

Lifeless.

I felt utterly lifeless.

Things had gone back to being semi-normal with Gideon, but my heart felt shattered. He no longer stayed out late or avoided me. He tended to me like a wounded child and it was exactly what I'd come to feel like.

Smelling my father's scent on the items he'd left had torn a hole in my heart. One of the weird things about death is that you don't even realize when you start to forget somebody. Their voice is always the first thing people mention that goes, but it wasn't the thing that hurt me the most. What had killed me was whe