Helanie:
I was on the verge of breaking down after hearing Maximus express his fake love for . It was truly heartbreaking.
Just a few months ago, Kaye had said sothing similar to .
He had asked to accept him, and he would leave with . But he didn’t want to wait.
And then tonight, Maximus said the sa thing—but he was lying.
Altan used to make such crazy promises in the coldest tone as well.
It was always like that.
No one had ever fulfilled their promises to .
"Maybe I’m really not that special for soone to be honest and loyal to ," I whispered, covering my face in my hands and sniffing as my tears soaked my palms.
"What will I do after I reject Maximus and refuse to be in a relationship with him? Will he openly try to hurt ? What will happen to my revenge when such a powerful man is after , trying to take down?"
I was losing my mind, disgusted with myself for getting tangled up in yet another ss.
If I had avoided this from the start, I would have been fine.
No heartbreak.
No pain.
I would have just focused on myself.
I had been so happy to have my wolf, but now, that happiness and small victory were overshadowed by Maximus’s betrayal.
That night, I went straight to bed because I had other plans for the morning.
Lamar, Gavin, and I had talked about going to the library to find a way to help Lucy.
However, we were going to tell Gavin about the tenth floor in the morning so our research would start in the right direction.
I woke up before breakfast and even left the mansion early to avoid seeing anyone. I planned to et up with my friends, and then Lamar would drop off directly in the woods where Maximus would be waiting for .
That was another issue I needed to solve.
After rejecting Maximus, I would need a new job. I didn’t think working with him would be good for my ntal health.
He would make my life miserable—I knew he was capable of it.
I rembered how, in the beginning, he had hated . I an, he still did.
But before he faked affection for , he was clever and vindictive.
I would need to stay far away from him.
"Hey," I waved my hand, slowing down when I saw Sage and Rudy standing behind Lamar and Gavin near Benita’s café.
"Sorry for crashing your etup, but I was so curious that I couldn’t sit still when I saw Lamar and Gavin show up on his bike," Sage mumbled in one breath, laughing awkwardly at herself.
"Oh no, that’s fine," I said, forcing a smile as I waved my hand.
I had a bad feeling she was here to talk about the Lycan.
She had a weird obsession with catching that Lycan.
"I just wanted to ask Gavin a few questions, and I’ll be quick," Sage said, shifting her attention to him.
"Yeah, sure. What’s it about?" Gavin asked, his expression matching the curiosity of the rest of us.
"That Lycan—you saw him transition, right?" she asked, her excitent evident.
"No!" he replied bluntly.
"Oh! Then walk us through your ti in the cave," she said, using hand gestures to show her eagerness.
As Gavin began speaking, I noticed Rudy glancing at , only to quickly look away when I caught him.
Now that was sothing new.
"I was on the mountain when night fell. I had been up there for days at that point, but that one night, things got out of hand. I was unable to defend myself because I had run out of flashlight power, food, and basically everything I needed to survive. I felt sothing attack from behind. The next thing I knew, my body was free-falling off the mountain. But then, the Lycan grabbed and dragged to his cave. He was so scary and—" Gavin grimaced at the mory of being trapped with the Lycan.
"So, he attacked you and then took you to his cave?" Sage clarified as he nodded.
"That’s what I rember," he answered.
"And what about, um—your ti in the cave?" she asked, her fingers anxiously fidgeting.
"He put in there and left. I hid in his cave, and by the ti he ca back, he was covered in blood—like he had eaten sothing, or maybe soone. The sll of blood was rich and... powerful. It was like whoever he ate was a high-ranking werewolf or soone with imnse power," Gavin’s face paled as he recalled the details.
It must have been horrifying for him.
"Hmm... and he didn’t eat you?" Sage asked directly this ti.
"Actually, no, he didn’t. He just ca and left. It was like he forgot he had put in there. There were tis when he would appear in the cave, looking lost—like he was trying to rember if he had been there before. That’s when I started noticing that he doesn’t rember what he did the night before."
That was the key to our answers.
A huge revelation.
We all exchanged shocked looks before turning back to Gavin.
"Great! So that ans if he broke the caras when trashing the cave, he wouldn’t even rember doing it," Sage let out a deep sigh of relief and then smiled confidently.
So this had been worrying her.
Of course, it was sothing to be concerned about.
But right when Gavin made that revelation, one of my biggest worries was answered as well.
So the Lycan wouldn’t rember that I was his mate?
Is that why Norman wanted to ask if I was in the woods?
So—he’s really a Lycan?
Petrified, I began to sweat.
All this ti, I had convinced myself that he probably lied just to stop from asking about the Lycan.
But now I was certain.
It has to be him.
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