Aicha On The Hunt Chapter 10

I cut off another piece of steak, chewing slowly, wonder- ing if he will answer about Khan saving him.

“Is it really bothering you that much?” Axton asks, and I look at him.

“About how I killed my father?”

“I never asked that?”

“Yet I can feel your curiosity over it,” he says, grabbing his plate.

“You said you were seventeen. But we don’t get our wolves until 18.”

“Once my grandfather was back, my mother agreed to sign everything over to him. We were eating dinner, Eli was staying the night and I remember dad was in a great mood ebcause he was drunk. I just assumed it was because we bought this place and were moving soon.” Axton pauses, star- ing down at his plate, his hand fisting around the knife.

“This packhouse?” I ask him. Axton nods.

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“Yeah, mom was excited; she said this place would be a fresh start. Mom purchased it two weeks before we were moving the pack here.”

“And that’s why you lived in the apartment, not here, be- cause it was your mother’s?” Axton nods sadly.

“So what happened?” I ask curious.

“Dad was living away. He was living here for a bit to sort out things here. Mom and dad were constantly fighting, so it was a good break for her. Anyway, he came home. He handed

slid the pa- perwork over to her. Mom signed it and gave it back to him. My grandfather was talking to me. I had another fight in

with a steak knife. I was in shock and just stared at her. It happened so quickly and abruptly and dad was in a good mood, so I didn’t think he would do something like that.” Axton stares at the knife in his hand, his eyes flickering for

and Eli ran for help. My grandfather tried to protect her. She was still alive, bleeding everywhere, but her wolf was a quick healer. She

shifted. That’s when I got Khan. His voice suddenly appeared in my head and screamed at me to drop the barrier between us. I didn’t know how; I tried. My fa- ther’s wolf ripped her to pieces

him?” Axton

but my father’s wolf was a monster, and Khan was brought on by my fear. Khan attacked him and

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no match for him. If it wasn’t

“What did Eli do?’

my grandfather to shift once my father turned on Eli. My grandfather

when did you kill

cover up my mother’s death. People were asking questions. So, I contacted Marco. But Marco’s hands were tied. Pack business is

challenged him?” Axton shakes his

killed him, is not something

“Why?”

handed down or challenged for, or given to the oldest child

have been yours un- less

did, didn’t you? That is why there is so much media speculation about

the council he wit- nessed the challenge in the

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he

my mother was Marco’s niece.” I nearly choke on my food at his

never had

had a daughter.

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