Chapter 149. Unravelling the Truths

Zane’s POV

Everything was going according to plan.

The moment I stepped away from Xerina, leaving her in that house with Rasmus and her pathetic family, I knew I had already won. She didn’t remember him. She barely remembered herself. And that was the key. The full moon was approaching fast, and with it, she would be exactly where I needed her to be.

Unstoppable.

I could still feel the lingering energy from her. The power beneath the surface of her skin, waiting to be unleashed. The bond Rasmus thought he had over her? A joke. A mere inconvenience. The mate pull wasn’t something I could sever easily, but I didn’t need to. Not really. All I had to do was twist her, manipulate her mind until that bond became nothing but a distant memory. A fantasy she couldn’t even grasp anymore.

She was mine. She just didn’t know it yet.

I moved through the dark halls of the underground lair, the air thick with the scent of blood and magic. Leon waited in th