Chapter 156

“You know what, if you're going to stand here and try to convince me the woman that abandoned her one year old in the alley with nothing but half a bottle of milk is a better mother than me? Then leave my house, go to her house and defend her there.”

CAELUM

I was mad at Aurora, mad at myself for being so blindsided. It took one day in Afghanistan to find the truth I've been solely seeking for months. I knew Aurora didn't leave me like she has so claimed, she never could, as much as she wanted me to believe that lie I never would. I wish she had told me, trusted me enough to speak to me about her past, year trauma but no, I had to slit it out of her kidnappers throat.

When Ryker brought me the news and Cassian connected the dots to Afghanistan I was mad, I was so fucking livid about the matter. I've never killed as many people as I did yesterday, and still, even after killing each and every man and woman involved in her kidnapping seven years ago, I felt nothing, I still f