“Could you shut the door?”
He nodded, rising to close it before returning to sit beside me on the dusty floor, his shoulder barely touching mine.
“Elowen, please tell me what is going on.”
I took a shuddering breath. “My mother, she is the problem.”
“Is she hurt?” Alarm flashed across his features.
“No.” I laughed bitterly. “You know those times the truth hurts so bad, you wish you never discovered it?”
“Yes,” he said quietly.
“My mother sent a letter to me earlier this morning, and she said she wanted to speak to me; of course, I had gone to meet her, and she started with some talk about her past…” My voice trailed off as the words caught in my throat.
Frost waited patiently, his steady presence anchoring me as I struggled to continue.
“Elowen, please speak to me; there is no way I can help you if I don’t know how to.”
The gentleness in his tone broke something in me. The words tumbled out, unstoppable once they began.
“She told me Alaric was my father.” The statement hung in the air between us, heavy and poisonous. “She said she left this pack pregnant with Alaric’s child, and she hadn’t told me the truth all this time because she thought what I had with Kaius would come to an end soon, and…” I hesitated, realizing I was about to reveal something I’d never told him. “She knows about the contract too; I am so sorry, and I know I shouldn’t have told her, but I needed someone to talk to, and she wanted to leave this place so badly, I had to assure her that I didn’t plan on staying either.”
“Elowen, it is alright,” Frost said, though surprise flickered briefly in his eyes.
“I changed my mind and I didn’t tell her about it,” I continued, the words spilling out faster now. “I didn’t tell her what I felt for Kaius or how I planned to be with him for the rest of my life, and I know it was so darn wrong of me, but I was in love with the son of the man who had hurt her so badly, I didn’t know how to tell her. But she must have noticed it. She revealed the truth, Kaius is my brother and this was the truth I never wanted to hear.”
Frost was silent for a long moment, his expression unreadable. When he finally spoke, his voice was carefully measured.
“And how do you know she didn’t have things mixed up? You look nothing like Alaric, no offense.”
Hope flickered briefly in my chest, then died. “Alaric had said something to me when he abducted me, something about my father, and… I should have known what he was getting at.”
Frost and I sat in silence for a few seconds. Then I continued.
I cannot tell Kaius this…” My voice broke on his name. “I don’t want to lose him; I would never see him as a brother, but as the man I love.”
“Elowen.” Frost turned to face me fully, his eyes holding mine. “I believe in fate, and if you both are meant to be together, then there would always be a way, believe me.”
So, what do you think I do? He should know about this, right? He has the right to know, and I shouldn’t keep the truth away from him. Even as I said it, fear clawed at my throat.
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“Whether you choose to tell him or not, that is completely up to you I would be with you in whatever decision you make, Frost replied, his hand finding mine and squeezing gently.
I stared at our joined hands, drawing strength from the simple contact. The truth was ugly and painful, but living a lie would be
worse.
‘Til tell him,” I said finally.
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