STELLA
“You are lying!”, I say loudly, “You are making this up!”
“Am I, Stella?”, he looks at me, eyes sparkling red, “How do you think I got that ruby necklace in the first place?”
“There was an auction!” I retort.
“There was. That’s how we met with your father”, he smiles, “Shame I didn’t know about you then… Everything would have been different now. But back to the story… I met your father at the auction, I intended to meet him. An artefactor of his caliber comes once in a lifetime! I wanted someone like that to work for me. And, luckily, we bonded. Over common hatred towards Richard Grayson.”
I gasp… It matches up…Dad did hate that man... I look at Xave, but he avoids my gaze, his lips tight.
“I didn’t know back then why would the artefactor hate an Alpha with all his might
