Her words stung, but I pushed past the bust. “You are not his mate; tam. What is your problem?“
My problem is that I am certain you are not his true mate, yet, for some reasons, he picks you over me, even when I had thought you lost him, he went right back to you I can see him slipping out if my fingers, and it hurt so bad, it hurt that Iam about to lose all I had ever worked for. I was ready to give him anything everything, but he wanted less–he wanted you.”
The raw pain in her voice was impossible to ignore. Despite everything she’d done, I found myself feeling sorry for her.
Tell me what you’re using to control
of him,” she demanded, her voice desperate. Il do any fucking thing to know your secret. What
power do you have over him?”
Tunderstand your distress,” I chose my words carefully, “But the
him.”
“Impossible; Kaius can never love you; he doesn’t do love.”
othing to tell. There’s no secret leverage I’m using against
“Was that what he told you? Because he told me very differently when we were in bed. The moment the words left my mouth, I regretted them. It was unnecessarily cruel, even to someone who had betrayed me.
“You fucking bitch!” Lysandra lunged forward, but stopped herself just short of striking me.
I’m sorry: I didn’t intend on getting physical.”
“He made you pay for betraying me, didn’t he?” I asked.
She sank back onto the edge of her bed, all fight leaving her. “He made me pay, in the worst way,”
“What happened?” Despite myself, I was curious.
“Oh, I know you would want to hear about that,” she said bitterly. “He had spent a long time with me; those days were the best. I thought he had ended things with you; it felt that way, and I thought I had won. But he had only done that to prove to me how worthless I was. He stripped me of my title as a commander–I spent years… years working for that, but he took it all away, just when I had thought my life was all perfect.”
I could barely process what I was hearing. Kaius had never mentioned punishing Lysandra for her betrayal, yet he’d stripped her of the position she’d worked so hard to achieve.
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“You could move on; Kaius has a mate now, and trust me, there are to many men out there that would be dying for a woman li you,” I offered, trying to soften the blow.
“You don’t seem
to understand; it had always been Kaius; for so many years I don’t think of any other,” she said, her voice breaking.
you… do you love him?” I asked, though I already knew the answer.
“Yes. I love him. Even if he keeps on hurting me, even if he never sems to see all the sacrifices I had already made and am still willing to make for him, I still love him, and it hurts, but I know there would never be anyone else for me. Elowen, please understand this.”
“Well, I love him too,” I said simply.
“He never gave me the chance. You say you love him, but could you bleed for him? Would you give your life for him? Could you fight for him even with your very last breath? Could you leave behind the people you love to be with him?”
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Her questions struck deep. Would I sacrifice everything for Kaius? It I already?
“And he loves me,” I replied, unable to give her the answer she wante
“No, you can 1. So what makes you think that you deserve him? The literness in her walce was palpable as I left her room.
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