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 me for

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

voice, and

Alpha Roberts had me. He would come and see me all the time. Sometimes almost everyday, but then sometimes not for weeks.

but twice as

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

the panic, to the feeling of

To the torture.

only the

beat me, or make me sleep in a cold dark closet with no bedding and no

hope my pack was treating Leah as badly, because it was what she deserved..

death and misery to the Rathborn pack.

at the same time, I started wishing Aaron and the others would just leave her alone and forget about her, so maybe the old Roberts Alpha would do the same

and then Aaron had

the Roberts Alpha had come to tell me–raging about it-

been convinced that surely Aaron would find some way to get himself out

all, to appeal to the Council and

Roberts Alpha had really stepped things

his research, and

stomach churn, and can’t let my thoughts go

don’t have to

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