ALEXANDER
“You want the truth, Alexander?” my mother said quietly. “Here is the truth.”
I took in a deep breath, waiting for her to speak.
“I wasn’t taken to Shadow Fang territory,” Helen continued. “Not even close. I was kept within Blood Crescent borders the entire time.”
I wasn’t surprised to hear that… I already knew. I just didn’t have proof.
“I wasn’t tortured,” she went on, her voice calm, almost clinical. “I wasn’t threatened. Atlas is stupid, yes—but he isn’t foolish enough to harm me. He knows who I am. He knows that if a single hair on my head had fallen out of place, he wouldn’t be facing just Blood Crescent warriors.”
I stared at her.
She didn’t need to explain that part. I knew it already.
Helen Blackwell wasn’t just my mother. She was born of the original Alpha’s blo
