Ch. 103 - Long Journey

Kiera POV

"Are you ok?" Becky asked for the hundredth time.

"I'm fine," I said through the pain.

Three rejections in one day were too much for me. I tried to bury the agony, cracking my bones and ripping apart my muscles, but it was eating away at my soul. The look of all three brothers was etched in my brain. I crippled them, left them too weak to hold their own for days.

"We can go back. The South isn't going anywhere, Luna." Andy was now on my right side.

"No, we can't go back," I said confidently.

If I went back, I would never leave. My bond with them was too strong. The pain I felt was enough to make me give in. I knew if I accepted them, then all this would wash away, but then I would be bound to them forever.

"At least let one of us carry you." Andy pleaded with me. I was barely walking on my own. Each step felt like my tendons would tear apart.

"I know you are all concerned. I'm fine, though. The rejection will pass, and we will be at our strongest again." I stopped walkin