Jesse couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Alec had been her father’s familiar all along. How was that even possible, how could she not have known? Heated rage simmered within her, each heartbeat pumping acid through her veins. Her father had known of their connection. The more she listened to what Micah and Freya were saying the more she realised he had not only forced Alec to hurt her, but was probably responsible for the things Alec had mentioned in the letter she wasn’t supposed to have seen, the mistakes and the things he wasn’t proud of that he thought could never be forgiven. All this time, he had been as much of a prisoner as she had. Only his sentence had already stripped him of his choices.
Alec had been her father’s familiar his entire life, bent to his will, forced into his
