Chapter 167

Elara pov

I couldn’t cry.

I desperately wanted to cry, but I couldn’t.

I once read in a book that when tragedy truly hits someone, the first emotion they process is shock.

Then disbelief. Then hope that it isn’t true, that it’s just a dream. And finally, the brutal realization that it is real… and that you have no choice but to face it.

I guess I belonged to that category after all.

When I first