"It's high time you knew your place dear sister-in-law" She leaned in so close that it was just a whisper. "You were never supposed to live this through"
Darkness crept into the edges of my vision. I'd lost too much blood, and I heard one last thing before everything went dark—
Vickson's roar of fury, echoing through the halls.
Vickson's POV
The moment's tension lay on my chest like a heavy stone. The atmosphere in the room was charged, vibrating with silenced expressions and the mounting tempest that stirred just out of sight. Emilia's revelation had rattled me but there was no time to sit around feeling sorry for myself—I needed to do something.
I clenched my fists wanting to retract my claws as the wolf howled inside me for justice, vengeance and blood. "Are you saying" I ground out between clenched teeth "that all of it was Hailey's pain, the betrayal, the war which was orchestrated by powers so much beyond what we imagined?"
