I Raised His Heirs, They Shot Me Off a Cliff

"Please… please… just help me leave. I can't take this anymore…" My voice broke into fragments as I clutched the phone so tightly my knuckles turned white, as if it were the only thing tethering me to sanity, the last fragile thread keeping me from completely falling apart.

"Seraphina? What's going on? Where are you?" The voice on the other end was sharp with concern, urgent, grounding, but it felt so far away, like it was coming from another world I no longer belonged to.

I dragged my sleeve roughly across my face, smearing tears and blood together without caring.