Chapter 129: Chapter 129: Search Party

Hayden’s POV

I felt my heart constrict in my chest as I watched Eleonore turn from us and wrap her arms around Bastian. It felt like my entire chest collapsed in on itself as I stared at her back and the way Bastian’s arms came to immediately wrap around her.

Rhett growled beside me, as my wrists had gone numb at the thought of her rejecting me—rejecting us.

I wondered for a moment if we had pushed her too far, if being as intimate as we had been caused her to regret us. Did she not want us? Why? Had we upset her? There was a small voice in my head that told me she was tired of us, tired of having to run for her life, tired of hiding. Maybe she hated us.

It would make sense, if that was the reason, I could understand why. We had ripped her from everything she had built for herself; her school, her friends, her family. Would Bastian even have gone this far if Rhett and I hadn’t gotten involved? Would she have been happier if we had never met.