Chapter 164\u00a0<\/p>\n
What was he doing here and how was this possible and why wasn\u2019t he dead or locked up somewhere he couldn\u2019t hart anyone ever again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Had he managed to escape through the help of Seraphine?\u00a0<\/p>\n
The thought made me shiver. Seraphine was working for him, for how long now?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A light flicked on overhead, swinging lazily back and forth and casting moving shadows across the concrete walls that made everything look twisted and\u00a0<\/p>\n
wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sudden brightness made me squint and blink, but when my eyes adjusted I could see that I was in what looked like a basement or cellar with gray\u00a0<\/p>\n
walls and a low ceiling that felt like it was pressing down on me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And standing at the bottom of a set of wooden stairs, watching me with cold satisfaction and that same cruel smile I remembered from my nightmares,\u00a0<\/p>\n
was the man who had destroyed my life years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daxon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He looked older than the last time I\u2019d seen him, with gray threading through his dark hair and new lines around his eyes that made him look\u00a0<\/p>\n
distinguished instead of evil, but his smile was exactly the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cruel and calculating and pleased with himself, like he\u2019d just won a game I didn\u2019t know we were playing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHello, Athena,\u201d he said, like we were old friends meeting for coffee instead of predator and prey in a basement where no one would hear me scream.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been too long.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I couldn\u2019t speak for a moment because seeing him here, knowing that he was the one behind this, made everything so much worse than I had imagined and brought back memories I\u2019d spent months trying to forget.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The wedding that never happened because I\u2019d finally found the courage to say no.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The beatings that came when he felt I\u2019d crossed the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The miscarriage he\u2019d caused with his fists when I\u2019d tried to tell him about our baby.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The months of terror before I\u2019d finally escaped and found my way to Tristan\u2019s pack.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you want? I finally managed to ask, and I was proud that my voice didn\u2019t shake even though everything inside me was screaming and my wolf was pacing frantically in my mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His smile widened and he took a step closer, his hands clasped behind his back like he was giving me a tour of his property instead of holding me prisoner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I\u2019ve always wanted,\u201d he said simply, and his voice was the same smoothy silk it had always been when he wanted something. You. And now that I have you, your precious mate is going to pay for taking what was mine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I was never yours,\u201d I said, and this time there was steel in my voice because that was one lie I would never let stand, not even to save my own life. \u2018I rejected our bond at the altar in front of everyone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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15:22 Sat, Jan 10 G MR\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 164\u00a0<\/p>\n
$70\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Details,\u201d he said with a dismissive wave of his hand like my choices meant nothing to him. \u201cYou agreed to my proposal which makes you mine whether you accept it or not. The fact that you ran away and found yourself another mate doesn\u2019t change the fact that you\u2019re mine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The casual way he said it, like my feelings and choices meant nothing, like I was just an object to be traded between men like cattle or land, made my\u00a0<\/p>\n
wolf snarl with rage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have no right to keep me here like this,\u201d I said, my voice getting stronger with each word.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I have every right, Daxon said, his voice hardening and losing that fake silk tone. \u201cYou humiliated me when you ran away from our wedding. You cost me an alliance with other packs that I had worked for years to arrange. And then you mated with someone else like I meant nothing to you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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