Chapter 105. How She Was Murdered

Athena

The tears stopped flowing down my cheeks and the shaking stopped and a strange icy calm washed over me like I was suddenly looking at everything from outside my own body.

I lifted my head slowly and met his gaze directly and my lips curled into a bitter smile that felt foreign on my face.

“You think killing her made you win something?” My voice was quiet but it carried through the space between us and was sharp as a knife cutting through flesh. “You think taking Jess away from him somehow made me yours?”

His smile faltered just slightly and I could see confusion flicker across his features so I pressed on and my voice got stronger with every word.

“You actually failed Daxon and you failed spectacularly. You killed an innocent woman and her unborn child and guess what happened? I still wasn’t yours after all that blood was spilled. Killing her didn’t make me love you and it didn’t make me want you and it didn’t make me yours.”

I leane