"And why shouldn't I have run?" I bare my teeth at him. "Should I have waited for the other shoe to fall? For you to conveniently remember that day in the woods with my father and uncle? Should I have waited for you to drag me and my brother to our execution?"
Seeing the shock on Morris's face is satisfying. It placates some of the fury lingering within me, some of that terrible agony that still haunts me at night.
"You think I would have used your Alpha's death against you?" Morris breathes, looking horrified now.
"Why wouldn't you?" I hiss at him. "You did everything else to me. So why not this?"
He falls silent, his expression growing blank, "Is that what you've thought of me this whole time? That I'm this monster just waiting to take advantage of you?"
I don't respond.
Even if I
