Chapter 314 Epilogue

CASSANDRA

It was a sunny day, the first one in a long time.

After the long winter and cold spring, summer eventually came, and it was hotter than it had been in forever.

Sunlight streamed in through the clinic window, and I was a little distracted as I stared out at the window at the kids in the yard.

Finnick, Lila, Marley’s boys Eric and Adrian, and Dominic were all chasing each other, playing a game of tag with one another. Marco was out there with them too, but he was sitting on a bench alone, meters away from the rest of the kids. He looked lonely and didn’t move as the others played around him.

It had been a month since the chaos in Merliscire and Adalyn’s death. I supposed it was still hard for Marco to accept the fact that his mother was gone. She had killed herself right in front of him after holding him hostage and threatening to hurt him. The poor little boy had endured so much trauma in such a short amount of time.

He wasn’t a bad kid. He had a mean disposition at times, bu