Chapter 308

I can see Axel is confused by what I’ve just said.

“How can Leah be the reason you were abducted? She was just a child,” Axel says, but his voice isn’t judgmental or critical, just

curious.

I think then he might actually listen to me and understand where I’m coming from.

“The Roberts Luna was killed,” I tell him, the memories of that time coming back to haunt me.

Really, those memories never left me. It’s not like I had much else to think about during those ten years I was locked up.

“And then both my parents were killed,” I continue, a lump rising in my throat. “The number of wolves who’d already died was getting higher and higher, and other packs were beginning to get pulled into the conflict. The Council decreed that peace needed to be reached. They decided in favor of the Rathborn pack and told the old Roberts Alpha he needed to hand Leah over to be Aaron’s future bride. Of course, it wasn’t like Rathborn pack came away from it much better off. My brother had to sacrifice his life and his true love, Jessica.”

“I still don’t see what that has to do with you,” Axel says, brow creasing in confusion.

glance away from him, trying not to let the memories overwhelm me.

I’d barely been old enough to be fighting in the war myself.

I’d only just turned seventeen, but after my parents were killed, I swore I would get my revenge.

Old Roberts Alpha used

and what was left of his best fighting wolves slaughtered the other pack members I was with, and abducted me. It was a massacre. And all the bodies they burned. All so they could cover the fact that I was taken,

through that, Emily,” Axel says in a low voice, and I can tell

twisted trade in his mind. Aaron had Leah, so the Alpha Roberts had me.

twice as

to stop then, because it’s starting to feel like I can’t breathe

panic, to the feeling

To the torture.

was only the

withhold food, or beat me, or make me sleep in a cold dark closet with no

used to hope my pack was treating Leah as badly, because it

death

the others would just leave her alone

Leah had grown up and then Aaron had

me–raging about it- I’d

that surely Aaron would find some way to get himself out of it.

all, to appeal to the Council and get the

that was when the old Roberts Alpha

research, and the experiments had

my stomach churn, and can’t let my thoughts go any

Axel says gently. “You don’t have to

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