Chapter 73

Janet looked at him blankly. It took her a long moment to process what he just said.

After what felt like an eternity to Kass, Janet finally muttered with a dry voice, “…This joke isn’t funny, Kass.”

“I wish it were a joke. But it wasn’t,” Kass said breathing heavily. “I–I can’t keep this from you any longer, knowing that you trust me this much… You deserve to know-”

“But you said your parents died in the rogue’s hand!” Janet snapped harshly, “Was that a lie as well?!”

“NO! That’s true! Listen…”

Kass took a deep breath before continuing. He kept his voice low the whole time in case anyone would hear them.

“I grew up among the rogues. But my family never identified us with those ravagers. We never hurt an innocent person’s life, nor did we ever take pleasure from all the killings and robbing. So they looked down upon us, bullied us, and made our lives miserable. One day, a senior rogue named Sterning-”

“You know Sterning?” Janet gritted.

“Yes. He is the rogue king’s right hand. Does all kinds of dirty work for him.” Kass said lowly, “Sterning came into our house and asked my parents to join them in the next attack on a nearby village. My parents resisted fiercely…So they cut my mother’s belly open and hung my father on a flagpole as an example.”

A cold sensation surged up in Janet’s chest.

“…Where were you when that happened?” she asked.

“Hiding in the closet. As my mother told me to. I witnessed the whole thing…but was lucky enough to survive them. And after that, I couldn’t take it anymore. I knew I had to run…as far away as possible. Blood Moon defeated them during that attack, so

I knew it was my chance-”

“So you pretended to be an orphan and enlisted in the army,” Janet murmured.

She couldn’t believe this.

She was so convinced that Kass was one hundred percent innocent! She defended him harshly in front of all the Gammas.

Yet now he was telling her that he had been lying to her all along?!

“…So that’s why you know the rogue’s tone,” she snarled as her chest tightened in the horrible feeling of betrayal. “Because you are one of them all along-

“NO! I am not! I might have lied about my identity but my hatred towards them is real-”

“But how do you expect me to believe you again?!”

Janet snapped her head up and glared at Kass.

you tell the truth when Daran and the others asked about

if I told them, they

Janet’s wrist and begged with a trembling voice, “Please, Janet…I am not scared of

away from

rose and fell rapidly in

then?” she asked gritting her teeth, “Do you want me to hide this from everyone else

want to stay by

of yours? How can I ever trust

cried, raising his voice, “–that you

before you told me that

at each other, both panting

took a step back. The next second,

Janet watched him stiffly.

doing? she asked herself internally. Did he get mad and want

head off?

that she couldn’t

now.

instead of attacking her, the brown wolf lay down on the ground and rolled

thunder–shaped mark?”

by a hot iron. It

when I wanted to grab a knife and gouge it out…I can’t choose who I am or where I came from. But does

stared at his ugly–shaped

with the cold

back to life. Daran

exceptionally quiet on the

that everyone was thinking about the mole. Suspicion and doubt were spreading like a plague and

her, which could potentially get

packhouse, Daran asked

he said and went back to

But she couldn’t sleep.

clog in her throat, making it hard for

it to the

Kass would definitely be executed. Even worse, Casper and the entire Blood Moon Pack would be in trouble because they

she kept the secret, what if

that Kass was not the

tossed and turned through the night. When she finally woke up the next morning, feeling worn out

in the room when

yesterday. He snorted coldly when Janet entered the room and snapped

and gestured for

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