Chapter 128: Ayla

A huge rumble echoed through the room, bouncing off the high ceilings, making the walls shake. Harry stopped what he was doing and looked toward the sound. His shoulders instantly became tense and his face contorted into a curious scowl.

“Bare with me, my love,” he said absently to me. “We may have a visitor.”

My heart skipped.

Theo

“Don’t get your hopes up,” Harry snapped. “There’s no way he could have found you. It’s probably some rogue poking around where they shouldn’t be.”

He disappeared into the darkness, the sound of the door closing the only indication he was gone. I waited a moment before pulling at the ring again, trying to work it out of the wood.

“Ayla,” Kylee said to me. “I’m sorry.”

I sighed. I wasn’t in the mood to deal with her apologies. It’s not like they meant anything anyway.

I closed my eyes, pushing passed the headache that had formed.

That was harsh.

And even though she deserved it, I didn’t. I couldn’t carry that pain with me from here.

If we got out of here.

well have faced

“For telling everyone you know I’m a horrible, selfish person or for trying

your

to steal someone’s fated mate. Because you sure as hell knew he wasn’t

I’m sorry for everything,” she said. “I really did love

road? Tell me how much you love the one person who was supposed to be mine? Like I’m supposed just let you have him. News flash, Kylee, I already did that, and look what that

years with my friends so I could keep you fed and a roof over your head. I kept you from seeing Ma passed out drunk

have let them touch you. Oh, but me?

mother say weakly. She sat herself up slowly. “How could you believe that,

close. You kept leading those assholes right

whispered in

leaned back against the post, giving my fingers

said. “I

have known that, Ma?” I yelled.

Ayla,” Ma explained. “You know that. Kylee needed me

different and you thought that meant I

“But you did…”

anger. “But I did. Because you were still my mother. And because I needed to make sure Kylee was taken care of. You both took everything from me. And it was okay

cold floor against my skin, the rough wood splintering along my back, the coarse rope digging into my

flashed through my head. I nearly sobbed. I missed

image came

was a

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