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And only then will the battle be won.
33
MALACHI
Nora goes up to bed after digging the knife in even further.
You deserved that punch, Mal, and if you think otherwise, you’re not the man I thought you were.
She’s got a point, and I hate that she does.
“I don’t even fucking know where to go from here,” I say, hanging my head.
“I don’t think any of us do,” Orson says quietly. “We’ve been making Cevon out to be the villain this whole time, but I’m not sure we’ve been right in that.”
Fin’s head snaps up. “He kidnapped our fucking mate.”
“Did he? Or did he take his mate and keep her safe?” Orson counters. “Did he cover her tracks so that she’d be safe if any hunters came looking? He didn’t think Atticus was going to survive, but he made it so that Nora did.”
I sigh, a combination of anger and sadness filling me.
I don’t know where to go from here. Cevon was my best friend.
When the shit that went down with my family happened, he was the one there, helping me get out. He was by my side through it all, offering a safe place for Micah and I, when we had nothing.
He helped me get my job, he brought me into Atticus’s inner circle.
All until he met Lainey. I barely remember her, I saw her that infrequently. She was a tiger, but she had been wronged by our kind, and she avoided me and Micah because we triggered her, which meant that Cevon avoided me.
Our friendship went from being a strong and steady force to being a weak paper tower that didn’t survive.
We went from seeing each other every single day to not even answering my texts.
When he and Atticus were at each other’s throats, I was on Atticus’s side.
But Cevon pushed me away first.
He left me and chose her.
I hate that he’s suffering now. But I don’t think any part of me is sorry she’s gone.
That might make me a bad person.
But I don’t care.
He’s never going to see the negatives about her now. She’s been idolised in her death, granted god status in his memories. She was problematic at the best of times and downright toxic at the worst.
Now I might get my friend back and share a mate with him.
We just need to get through this rough patch first.
“What’s that look for?” Griffin asks, drawing me from my thoughts. I look around the room, noticing it’s just me and him. “Kai?”
“Nothing. Where’s Orson?”
“He’s gone to make sure Nora is settled, and then will be going to see Atticus,” Fin says. “Are you okay? Has your nose healed.”
I nod. “Yeah, the fucker broke it, though.”
