Chapter 99. Salvation

Cora

I couldn’t just leave this boy all on his own and alone, so after much consideration and evaluating the given chances of his supposed conversation with Athena ending up in an adverse way, I decided to stay. Cause I knew Sebastian would not be able to handle it. He was incapable of even thinking straight.

He was guilt-ridden to the point where hurting himself seemed like the only way he could make up for his mistakes—a sick recompense he thought was the only way to his salvation. I’d been treating him for months, and this period was enough to let me know how worse his condition was getting each day and the only way to give him hope was to tell him that he was recovering, to try to introduce him to new ways of happiness and peace.

But, No. Nothing had helped and would perhaps never. His whole life only circled Athena. Her name alone shattered him into small pieces, every day.

The mistakes he had made in the past were still suppressing him deep in th