Chapter 17

(Lena's POV)

"You should believe them," he said, and I felt the need to back away. I had stumbled into a sensitive topic.

"I killed her," he said, his eyes glassy as if going over a memory he had locked deep inside.

"It all started the day I found her; she was scared of me, as everyone is. But I... I cared for her." My heart hurt at the thought that he had cared for someone else, but she was his mate after all and she was dead ." I remember the first time I had to bed her and mark her. She cried a lot, making me feel so guilty. She hardly spoke to me, and I wanted to make her happy, but she was always sad, and then she brought her brother to the pack; it made her happy, so I let him stay. Roy. That was his name, but she was so close to her brother, it made me worried. She loved her brother and spent most of her time with him. She stopped crying when I fucked her; she stopped fighting me away. I thought she was growing to like my touch. I was wrong. Strangely, th