Present Day
Ben’s POV
I hauled an angry Alpha towards the makeshift camp and into the tent that Ari had made for Kaitlin and me.
"Spill it, Ryland. Get it all out with me instead of pissing off the one person made for you." I said and watched his eyes flicker back and forth like crazy.
He flexed and unflexed his hands several times before taking a long breath. He sat on a stool that appeared out of nowhere and cradled his head in his hands.
"When Stephen poisoned me, I could feel the evil seeping into my soul from whatever he injected into me. A bright, blinding light flashed when your Luna carried me into that room, and this intricate pattern of the moon's phases showed brightly in the light and into my soul, washing away that darkness, but the anger from it still rolled through
