JASMINE'S POV
Hildegard hugged me and rubbed my back while I wept like a baby.
The pain of the betrayal was unbearable.
How could they all leave me just like that?
Xaden. Nanny Nia?
The only home I had come to know was the Crescent pack.
Despite all the awful things I had grown to face, it had still been my home.
This meant I would never go to my daughter's grave.
I was abandoned here in the midst of strangers.
It broke me.
"Even Nanny Nia." I wept. "I thought she cared about me. I thought she really did. So it was all a pretense."
Hildegard quickly let me go and caught my cheeks in her hands.
"No!" She said. "Don't ever say that. Nia loved you like you were her own. I've never seen her love or care for anyone like you."
I turned my cheeks away and cried, unable to believe anything Hildegard had to say.
