Chapter 116

Hazel's POV

“I don’t understand you, Alpha.”

“Do you still hate me for the way I treated you in the past?”

I swallowed. I didn’t know how to answer that. Yes, I was still hooked on what he’d done to me in the past. Though he was trying to make amends, I could see that. It was still too new to totally believe he had changed.

“What are your motives?”

Instead of replying to his question, I decided to ask one of my own. He looked at me like he was trying to understand what was going on in my head; he obviously hadn’t been expecting that question.

Lia groaned in my head.

“What, Lia?”

“I thought we had gone past this.”

“No. We didn’t even finish talking about it. The servant who had brought us food cut short our conversation about it.”

“And you couldn’t wait for us to be alone so we could discuss it?”

“I figured the Alpha is here, and hearing from the horse’s mouth is solid enough.”

“Hm.”

“Also,