Lucas turns stiff, “What?”
Damon doesn’t meet his eyes, “My mother’s entire family was executed, including her. Her great grandfather had been planted into the pack. And whatever family he formed, his ‘mission' was passed down to their children. My mother tried teaching me the same values but I resisted. I wouldn't have believed that she had anything to do with the attack on our tribe but I saw her with one of the attackers.”
I close my eyes.
Sending his own mother to her execution, despite her crimes, must have been the most difficult decision he could've made.
“She told me everything,” Damon continues. “In the hopes that I would share her and perhaps, join her. But I was the Alpha. My job was to protect my people. And I could tell that she didn't truly care for the loss of life. She
