Chapter 122. Truth and Heartbreak or Lies and False Security?

Kade’s POV

I stood in the door frame. My eyes scanned over her broken body, and I listened in on her heartbeat. I couldn’t step over the threshold. Anna’s words were running amok in my head, and I was contemplating turning around and walking away. When did this become so hard? The idea of truth and lie, fable or reality—it was like I no longer knew what I wanted. The walls were turning bleak, the sounds were closing out, and everything around her was growing dark until she was the only light in the tunnel I could see, leading me down the darkest road I’d taken, alone and honestly a little afraid.

The thought of fear never coincided with me; it was an emotion I knew others would occasionally have, and they would be vocal about it, but I could never put myself in their shoes. Fear wasn’t very common for an Alpha, not in my family at least, and now, suddenly, the blood in my veins was turning cold, and my muscles were in constant tension. The idea of Nathaniel comin