Alcha On The Hunt Chapter 26

I wait for her to say something, but I now had Axton’s mother’s name. I’ll give Marco one thing: he is good at cover- ing up for people; there are hardly any articles remaining about Axton’s family or his life before he moved to the city like they just vanished, and now everything is secondhand info or rumor.

It makes me wonder how much he covered up for Floyd, his foster brother. Axton barely told me anything about his mother that I didn’t already know about her, and he was very reluctant to talk about her.

“Phaedra, I didn’t know about her until Floyd agreed and allowed that asshole to buy her. What a shock that was to know he had a family I never knew about, especially given that he stole the opportunity from me to have kids, made me have a hysterectomy not long after we met, and said his way of life was too dangerous to raise children in.

“So I didn’t expect him to have any, and it almost broke me to find out he did. Though now I see it as a blessing, espe- cially after what became of Phaedra. That was also around the time I met Mary and Petra,” Sondra says, shaking her head and taking another mouthful of her rum.

“Who bought her?”

“Axton’s father. Insufferable prick he was. I hated him from the moment I met him. You could tell he was a cruel bas- tard, and I thought Floyd had a sinister edge, but that man had no limits, no humanity. He claimed Phaedra was his mate.”

knew that, making what he did worse. She didn’t want to go with

later, Phaedra had Axton when she was only sixteen.” Bile rises in my throat that he would just sell her to a man

debt, and he was going to kill her and cut all business dealings with Floyd until he met Phaedra. I didn’t know who she was until her mother tried

never men- tioned her once?” I question. Sondra shakes her

are unheard of, and I wasn’t familiar with your world. This was just before I found out about my real parents, so when he said I was his, I never ques- tioned it. I just knew I couldn’t seem to stay away from him, despite knowing I should, despite loving Marco still. So

was her mother?

head. This was so much to take in, and I was struggling to work out how all

he was into something shady, knew about the drugs, the fight clubs he ran with Ivan, but trafficking, I didn’t think he was capable of that.” She

sadly.

does that link to the women here? I thought Pe- tra escaped her abusive father and took the women with her?” I ask,

op- portunity and if they wanted their mates, they would pay the price he wanted. He didn’t

lot of things I am ashamed of. One of them was not helping them sooner.” She says with a faraway ex- pression

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