The news.

Evelyn.

The news I was waiting for finally came. However, it wasn’t the one I expected to hear.

As days went by and I didn’t hear any response from my mate, I kept my hope alive, telling myself that the mission was just taking him a while to accomplish and maybe he was just in a real tight situation where he couldn’t pick his calls or turn on his phone to check on me.

But then, I got slapped in the face by this kind of news?

Or did I hear him wrongly?

“De-dead?” I stammered out, my hands held against the basket I had forgotten I was holding. Finally, the basket slipped from my hand and my eyes began to turn me.

“Yes, Luna. I am so so–“ the soldier said. His eyes held the sadness that was laced in his voice.

I didn’t bother to hear the rest of the words. I couldn’t even listen if I planned to. The ground under my feet gave way and I found myself plummeting to the floor, my eyes closed and my senses lost. The last thing I noticed before I finally fainted was that one of the men sur