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“Guess not. Turns out she was sold to the Cripple Creek bastards who were fucking waiting to take the rest of our pack. That asshole gave them the in.”
“Devon? You didn’t. You wouldn’t.”
I noticed her slump and realized the male holding her had let go. I glanced over every single body in the room and realized that my world had come full circle.
“I did.”
She hiccuped, and I shot forward as her body crumpled, only to be shoved out of the way by one of them. I snarled when I saw Rife holding her.
“How could you, Devon? You said they told you I was dead? Why did you—"
She stopped and let out a cry.
“I’m so sorry. I was young and angry and the grief. I couldn’t handle it. The Luna, she taunted me like a fated mate, was nothing. She tried to offer me your sister.”
She sniffled and corrected me. “Step-sister.”
I nodded, and Rife shifted.
“You walked away from us. You murdered our alpha and let the attack happen. You had to know we weren’t capable of defending ourselves. The strongest of us had been called away for some fucking meeting. We were defenseless.”
I bared my teeth. “And your pack lied. You left me without a fated mate.”
Kiara’s cries had slowly quieted.
“Devon, you betrayed my pack.”
Her words hit hard, and my heart cracked wide open.
“The guilt has haunted me since that day. I have never allowed myself to be out of control. Not since that day, and I swore I never would again. I was young and broken. They threatened me and our own pack.”
I couldn’t get the air in my lungs. My arms were shaking, and I only noticed as my knees hit the floor.
“What can I do to atone? I offered solace to the Cripple Creek pack. I’ve tried to be the wolf my pack needed, and I’ve lived to make you proud every day since that day.”
She hadn’t spoken, and I felt like the connection between us retreating. Or was that my own panic numbing my world?
I closed my eyes, unable to take the sight of her in someone else’s arms.
Alpha? Should we take them out?
I shook my head, unable to answer them. I needed time. I hadn’t been ready to confess to this. Not yet. I thought we would have years of rounding up the Order of Helios before I would ever have to face this.
I couldn’t fucking breath without Kiara. I couldn’t be without her. How would I ever return to my pack as their alpha when losing her like this would shatter me, and this time I truly couldn’t come back from it? I wouldn’t.
Something warm caressed my cheek, but I was too afraid to know what. I didn’t want to open my eyes and realize I couldn’t even feel my own death. Or worse, see her leaving me.
Devon? I need you to look at me.
Her voice, her touch, her body. They owned me and I looked at her.
“I think I understand.”
I blinked. “What?”
She nodded to something, or someone, or maybe herself.
“I spent years trying to decide if I would kill my father and take my vengeance, or if I would come here and find out he’d regretted his decisions. When you told me they’d lied, I was torn.”
