Chapter 30

ADRIANA

Mum assured me that she was proud of me for coming forward and telling her what I thought about the fire. She said she already knew. In her words.

"Alpha Xander is a ruthless monster. I should have expected a retaliation sooner or later after we went into his territory."

She tried her best to make sure I didn't feel like it was my fault. But how could I not think it was when it literally is? If I had told her earlier, she would have seen it coming. And all those that were hurt would be fine. The families that lost their houses wouldn't have had to go through that.

"There is one person to blame, and only one person." Mum spoke sternly, seeing how I was still beating myself up. "That person is Xander. Nothing would have changed if we knew or not. We should just be happy no one got killed."

But a lot of people got hurt. And for that, I promised to make him pay.

I urged mum to let me go back to his place