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.

the Old Roberts Alpha used me for his own revenge.

heard yet another group of Roberts wolves had trespassed on our territory. We got ambushed. The Roberts Alpha 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

sorry you went through that, Emily,” Axel says in a low voice, and I can

I was alive, was because the Rathborn pack had his daughter. It was like some kind of twisted trade in his mind. Aaron had Leah, so the Alpha Roberts had me. He would come and see me all the time. Sometimes almost everyday, but then sometimes not for weeks. Somehow he was getting updates from within the Rathborn pack, so he’d tell me about her.

me, but twice as

stop then, because it’s starting to feel like I can’t breathe again, and I don’t want to

the feeling of

To the torture.

only the beginning.

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

Leah as badly, because it was what

had brought nothing but death and misery to the

alone and forget about her, so

had grown up and then Aaron

Alpha had come to tell me–raging about it- I’d refused to believe

Aaron would find some way to get himself out of

alter all, to appeal to the Council

that was when the old Roberts Alpha had really stepped

his research, and

feeling my stomach churn, and can’t let my thoughts go any deeper into that

Emily,” Axel says gently. “You don’t

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