Chapter Twenty Nine

In the dark loneliness I let my pieces fall apart without anyone to see them. And then I scream out my pain to break the silence around me.~ A. Gupta

Violet

I knocked on the door and a moment later Bree answered, “Come in.”

When I opened her bedroom door and entered, I found her looking at the painting I gifted her a day before. It had been three days since she gave birth to Ivan and two days since Cole up and left without saying a word to anyone.

I had slept while looking at him and when I woke up the next day he wasn’t there. He wasn’t anywhere. Maddox had said that he was fine but didn’t tell me where he was and why he left, not that I asked. Unlike me no one was bothered with it, it seemed like this— Cole’s sudden absence— was normal.

When Bree saw that it was me, she gave me a wide smile. She said, “Kiara took Ivan. They are in Dom’s room.”

I shrug