AVERY
Talking with Thier made me understand how much he had suffered after Amelia's cruel murder.
It was vile… what Kylen did. Unforgivable.
His own pup?
I shuddered, bile crawling up the back of my throat. My stomach twisted at the thought. I couldn’t shake the image of Amelia—pregnant, terrified, betrayed. And Kylen? The male I had once trusted, once chosen, once loved… he had taken everything from her. From me.
How could I have lived with that monster for so many years and never seen what he really was?
How blind, how stupid, how devastatingly naive must I have been?
I curled my arms around myself, as if that might shield me from the weight of my own regrets.
“I feel like a fool,” I whispered. “He was so good at pretending. So perfect when others were watching. So gentle in the
