Shattered Promises

Valen

Kaelia's scream shattered something inside me.

It wasn't a scream of pain or fear. I could handle those. I could do something about them.

This was different. This was the sound of a mom whose kid had been taken away for the second time in less than a week.

A deep raw wail of sadness that came from a place I didn't know humans could reach.

She fell to her knees in the house nursery her hands