Chapter 77. Family Crises

Aaron’s POV

I knew the snake named Nicole had planted the seed of distrust within Zera. She had always been a master at manipulation. I couldn’t believe I once thought she was the one for me. She never was, and like everything else, she manipulated her way into my mind and made me believe that lie.

I still remember the night I marked and mated with her. Instead of a restoration of my ever-reducing power, I witnessed a massive loss of the little power I had, and I realized she wasn’t the one. She had lied about the spark and bond she said she felt between us. When I confronted her about her lies, she told me I needed her as an ally. She told me she knew too much about me and the Dominio pack and that it would be bad if she took what she knew to the wrong pack.

I knew even if I kept her, she would betray me, so I ended the union and banished her from the pack, never to set foot there again. I learned she later joined forces with the rebellion pack, our sworn e