Chapter 8
Ford’s POV
My blood turned to ice.
“What?” The word was a low growl.
“Alpha, the Blackrock Pack has always been peaceful,” the Beta swallowed hard. “The war threat Kyra spoke of-it never
existed.”
The air in the room felt thick enough to suffocate me.
It was all a lie.
Aiden’s death.
Shelly’s despair.
The “death” of our child.
My Luna’s suicide.
All of it for a threat that was never real.
If Kyra hadn’t claimed she and our unborn child were in danger from the Blackrock pack, I never would have faked my death and abandoned Shelly!
“Bring Kyra to me,” my voice was deathly calm.
“Alpha-
“Now!”
Ten minutes later, Kyra was pushed into the room.
She still had no idea what had happened, a smug smile on her face.
“Aiden, what did you need me for-” Her words died in her throat when she saw my eyes. There was no emotion in them. Only a bottomless, dark abyss.
“I said,” I snarled, my voice dropping to a low growl, “KNEEL.”
The full force of my Alpha command hit her like a physical blow.
Kyra’s knees gave out, and she collapsed to the floor.
“The war with the Blackrock Pack,” I walked toward her slowly. “Tell me. Was it real?”
Kyra’s face went white as a sheet. “I-I don’t know what you’re talking about—”
“You don’t?” I crouched, bringing my face level with hers.
My voice dropped to a lethal whisper. “Then let me spell it out for you. Your family never intended to start a war. You made up a lie to make me believe that being with you was the only way to prevent one:”
“No, that’s not-”
“For that lie, I let my own brother die in my place,” my hand caressed her cheek, the gentle motion horrifying. “For that lie, I drove my Luna to her death.”
Kyra began to tremble violently. “Aiden, please, let me explain-”
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“Explain?” I laughed, a sound that made the room’s temperature plummet. “What is there to explain? How you planned all of this? How you destroyed everything precious in my life?”
“I just-I love you so much!” Kyra sobbed desperately. “I couldn’t lose you!”
“Love?” I stood up, looking down at her. “You call this love?TM
I turned to my Beta. “Take her to the dungeons.”
“No!” Kyra screamed. “Aiden, please! I’m carrying your child!”
“My pup is gone,” my voice was flat, dead. “He died with his mother at the bottom of the sea.”
Two guards moved to drag Kyra away.
“No!” she struggled wildly. “You can’t do this to me! I gave you everything!”
Just as she was being hauled out of the room, Kyra looked back, her eyes wild with desperate madness.
“SHE KNEW!” Kyra shrieked, her voice cracking with madness. “SHE KNEW YOU WERE ALIVE THE WHOLE TIME! Her ‘suicide’ was her ultimate revenge against you! She wanted you to know what it truly felt like to lose a mate! ”
Kyra’s wild laughter echoed in the room, sharp and unhinged. “She wasn’t broken, you fool, she was planning! And the search party? They found wreckage, but did they find a body? No! Because there was no body to find!”
“That coldness in her eyes when she left…. she was already a million miles away! And her brother, the mighty Winterstone Alpha? He would burn the world down for her before he’d let her die! It was all a lie! All of it!”
The words hit me like lightning.
Shelly knew the truth.
She knew I wasn’t dead
She knew I was lying to her.
And with her pride, she would never, ever die for a liar.
The impossible perfection of the crash.
“She’s alive,” I whispered.
“Alpha?” my Beta looked at me, confused.
I whirled around, a desperate flame of hope igniting in my eyes.
“Use every resource we have!” I roared at him. “FIND HER!”
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