Hard Luck Love (OLYMPUS)

There is nothing but heaviness in her heart, a pain that demands to be felt. It throbs and pounds, and she often feels like she cannot breathe. Raisa has abandoned her. Her, and their children. She feels an empty hole in the pit of her stomach, bile on the back of her tongue. Alas, the smell of Ebony greets her, and the golden Empress chases it.
She is disappointed by what she finds. Certainly she is pleased that it is Katja of all who stand in control of Virgil?s children?s pack, but she would have hoped Raisa would talk to her. There is no hiding her pain, the emptiness of her features. Her fiery eyes land upon the black woman. ?My children. The children Raisa and I raised together. They ought to be here, with me, with their mother,? she says. She seems so broken; if she is denied them then Virgil will fight for them here and now. Every last one. Until her limbs break and she can breathe no more.
She doesn?t know what else to do, doesn?t know what can possibly fill the void in her heart. She wants to break something, to make something bleed, to make the world understand what it is like to be abandoned not only once, but twice. But first, first she needs to bring her children to her side.