Chapter 28

"It's been years of searching, Aiden. How do you know she truly exists?"

"I'd have thought she was dead, a ghost come alive to haunt me if I didn't have this conviction that she was alive somewhere, out there. I felt the pull to come back here, home to face the ghosts of my past, Mara. Because of her. And she has given me something that I never thought I'd find after so long in the dark. Purpose."

Tamara Thorne and Aiden Thorne (2015)

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Tamara’s POV

If I could say I missed her, then I didn't want to think about how Aiden was taking her absence. It'd been two days since she left and yet it felt like years.

We were, or better still, I was in Idris, because I hadn't seen Aiden since she left.

I let him be because he needed time alone, though I had no idea for how long.

When I'd asked where he was going, he'd said nothing, allowing me to wrap him a hug, which said a lot about the amount of pain he was in.

I knew he still blamed h