Chapter Sixty Eight
“It doesn’t make any sense that you found me outside the pack borders and you wanted to hurt me… again, if you really felt sorry, then I would have expected you to begin making amends.”
“I know, and you have every reason to doubt, but if you want the truth, then this is it. What we had… it wasn’t a lie, and you too could see it.”
“I never thought it was a lie either, till another woman sat beside you, taking my position before my very eyes.”
Ryker inhaled, and I remember the man he used to be–the man I fell in love with. I still hate him now.
“After you left, everything felt empty,” he says, and I remembered how unorganized he had looked; that was very unlike Ryker. “I had to send her away; the pack members are
yet to discover why, but I would only hurt her, or maybe she would poison me and make it easier. She hates me; I hadn’t been treating her right either. Since you left, things got worse… and when I saw you in the woods, I was a fool to think force could do it again; I just needed to take you back, but you are stronger, or maybe I just got weaker. The moon goddess must have been against me; she had given you a second chance mate, the rarest thing in the world,” he says, and I don’t tell him that Thane is not my mate. Of course they all believed this was real, and I wanted Ryker to think the same; I wanted him to believe that I was given another chance.
“As touching as this story is, I don’t think it’s reason enough for you to turn on the person you ‘love‘; how do I know you aren’t saying all these just because I have a gun pointed at your head? You are so pathetic.”
“I don’t mind if you kill me after this; at least now you know.”
“It makes no difference; if you love a person, you fight for that person. You never fought for me; you loved the idea of being accepted by everyone that you were willing to put me in danger just to get that; you knew what it did to me when you fucked her and you did it over and over again, just to punish me; would you tell me that your mother forced you on her too?, or better yet, that you didn’t enjoy your time with her?, because it did seem to me like you did”
“I was a fool for treating you the way I did; I was a fool for choosing the pack over you.”
“Touché. What do you think I’ll do? fall back in love with you?”
“You–will–never love me, and I had already accepted that a long time ago…”
“If you had, why did you come here?, did you think force would do it this time too?”
“I–I…”
“That’s what I thought.”
“Riley. What has he done to you?” He asked, watching me through swollen eyes. I doubt he
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could see anything more than my blurry figure standing before him.
“You, Ryker. You started this; you broke me first, I say, pointing the gun back at him. It would be easy; just a shot and he would be dead; he deserved this; I was doing the world a favour by getting rid of him; he would die with the knowledge that 1, the very girl he saw as nothing, ended him.
Yet…
Yet I couldn’t. I couldn’t bring myself to pull the trigger; the gun shook in my hand, and the decision I had to make felt heavy.
Had I forgiven him? No. He was a dick, and he was a very good liar. I had to remind myself how many times he had lied to me, but he was right; I was not like ‘them‘. I couldn’t kill a person without feeling the guilt; even if the same person had put me through hell, I couldn’t end a life. “This doesn’t mean I forgive you, Ryker; you might end up killed, but you won’t die by my hands,” I said. Turning around to walk away. 1
“Please Riley, don’t leave me; you are all I have, all I wanted…”
I slammed the door shut, cutting off his voice.
Thane waited for me. I didn’t know where he got the cigarette from, but he leaned against the wall, smoking whatever stuff was in it. He turned his gaze to me.
“Why didn’t you kill him, Riley?” he asks
The gun
still shook in my hands. “I can’t; I am not a monster like you.”
He chuckled at that; it was dark. “Not a monster like ‘me?” He questioned. I swallowed. “After all he did to you, you think killing him makes you a monster?.”
“How will I take another person’s life? How did you expect me to do it?”
“The same way he took the life of your fucking child Riley,” his words hit hard, and I flinched, turning away. But his hands held me back.
“You are just like him, maybe worse, and you haven’t seen me attempting to take your life yet.
“I thought I was doing you a favour; any other person would be glad to have their tormentor finally at their mercy. I thought this would bring a smile to your pretty face, but again, even with him at your mercy, you did nothing.”
“Do you really want to do me a favour?, If so, then don’t punish Axel for a crime he never committed.”
“Things are run differently in this pack, Riley; soon you will get to understand that.”
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“I will never understand that!” I say
“Oh, you will, Riley.”
furious.
“Then maybe you would have picked someone who is just as understanding and cold–hearted as you are,” I say, like ‘Beatrix‘.
This part I don’t say out loud.
“Maybe I should have, but I enjoy breaking you.”
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