Chapter 311

AXEL

“How in the hell can you say you rejected Emily for her sake?” Aaron demands heatedly.

“There are things about me you don’t know, Aaron. Dangerous things.”

Aaron scoffs. “You expect me to be surprised about that? You’re not exactly an open book. And I’ve heard the rumors.”

“Most of what you heard about me is just that. Rumors. A lot of them started by Karolina to discredit me.”

Aaron seems to pause and take this in.

“Why would Karolina want to discredit you?”

“Because she knew I was onto her, and she needed me out of the way. She couldn’t kill me, so locking me up on false charges was obviously the next best thing.”

Aaron is definitely re–examining everything he thought he knew about me.

“Okay, I’m listening,” he says, some of the anger going out of him. “Who are you really, and why were you after Karolina?”

“My real name is Axiel Mercier-”

At this Aaron’s expression turns into shock.

And this is exactly why I never use my real name anymore.

“Axiel Mercier…as in the slayer?” he demands incredulously.

glow with the amethyst color of my dual

stories.

me. As she started dying, she went into labor and I was born seemingly healthy, even though my family assumed the poison from the vampire bite would infect me too. It did…just not the way anyone expected.”

he seems more intrigued

exactly how

his head in disbelief and begins to pace.

Karolina was the one I was after. I’d

between wolves and

and I needed to put a stop to it before the peace treaty was threatened.”

Emily?” Aaron asks, voice lower

from him, not wanting him to see the truth in

gaze.

never

a curse under his breath and starts pacing again.

why Emily? Why now? Hasn’t she suffered enough?”

if he’s talking to me, the Moon

that he makes the connection between Emily being fated to me

the truth, after all.

could not

of respect in

stares at me.

I can’t imagine it would have been easy, denying yourself and

pain by rejecting her like that. Many wouldn’t have been strong enough to do the same. I can see now, what you meant about trying to protect

I appreciate

see the truth of

is dead,” Aaron says, brow creasing

other night–vampires brazenly walking onto wolf territory in a way they haven’t dared for hundreds of years. My work here is

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