Chapter 83

HAZEL

The key was right there in the palm of his hand, I could unlock the cell, Darian would kill Zade and we could leave. This could all be over.

“Or you can honor your sister’s memory and let him rot in that cell, take Gabriel, and leave with a promise never to return,” Zade closed his fingers around the key and lowered his hand.

Honor my sister’s memory, because she’s dead…because Darian killed her.

The pressure in my head was pushing against my skull and Trixy was as in as much pain from the memories as I was, she clawed against the floor bank of my mind and growled when she saw the key.

Everything he’s ever done played across my mind with memories that would forever haunt me but the thing that pained me the most was that I couldn’t hate him for it; I wanted to, it would be so much easier if I could hate his guts and turn around never to return, keeping my promise to Zade and living in peace for the rest of my life. But that wasn’t the truth. He did