SWNOVELS Chapter Epilogue: Sawyer
A year and a half later;
Sawyer stared out at the water from his bedroom window and tried to find the motivation to get out of bed. It had been so long since he last felt like a functioning human that lying in bed and willowing in self-hatred was the only thing he knew how to do.
Marley had been on his mind from the moment he laid eyes on her and to this day she hadn’t left his thoughts. He could feel her inside the crystal, he could feel her energy, her power, her everything but he didn’t know how to help her. He didn’t know how to save his own mate and yet, she had so much faith in him, he felt it that day. He felt her hope and faith in him to win and bring her back but all he wanted to do was scream that he couldn’t.
After the shock warned off, he had run back to where she had disappeared and found her sword and dagger laying where she had been. And from then on, those two items never left his side. They were the only things he had left of her and he was never going to let them go.
“Honey?”
Sawyer didn’t respond, he didn’t even flinch at his mother’s voice as he could smell the soup in her hands. She made it her daily mission to make sure he ate at least once a day but it was slowly getting harder for the both of them. He didn’t want to eat, he didn’t feel hungry at all.
“Leave it on the table, thanks.”
She sighed. “I have had enough of this Sawyer! You need to find yourself again! You need to help yourself but helping her and sitting here wallowing is accomplishing nothing!”
“Don’t you think I know that!” He snapped, turning around to face her as she had her arms crossed and a ′don’t talk to me like that’ look in her eyes that mimicked his own. “I know that doing nothing isn’t helping but I don’t know what to do! I don’t even know where to start!”
She walked over to him and cupped his face in her hands. “People, think of the people you met when you were travelling with her. How many people helped you and how many people did you help?”
Sawyer thought about it, the four girls flashed through his eyes as he remembered all of their own unique power to piss him off. The faces of the vampires also crossed his mind and he had to frown, he heard that the youngest Lucas had found his mate and that she was a werewolf but he tried to shake it off as a coincidence.
If they were all linked, if they were all paired somehow then that would mean they would know how to help him. That would mean that they were the key all along but he was too blinded by protecting Marley to see that.
“I see you have figured it out.” His mother chuckled as she brushed some hair off of his face. “Now, let me cut that hair and beard off before you go back to them. That Marley of yours needs to see your face when she comes back.”
He nodded, his chest feeling a little whole again at the sudden hope. Sawyer needed this to work, he needed their help and he will do anything it took to get it for her.
For Marley.