Chapter 175\u00a0<\/p>\n
Athena\u2019s POV\u00a0<\/p>\n
The tears stopped flowing down my cheeks and the shaking stopped and a strange icy calm washed over me like I was suddenly looking at everything\u00a0<\/p>\n
from outside my own body.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I lifted my head slowly and met his gaze directly and my lips curled into a bitter smile that felt foreign on my face.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think killing her made you win something?\u201d My voice was quiet but it carried through the space between us and was sharp as a knife cutting\u00a0<\/p>\n
through flesh. \u201cYou think taking Jess away from him somehow made me yours?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
His smile faltered just slightly and I could see confusion flicker across his features so I pressed on and my voice got stronger with every word.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou actually failed Daxon and you failed spectacularly. You killed an innocent woman and her unborn child and guess what happened? I still wasn\u2019t yours after all that blood was spilled. Killing her didn\u2019t make me love you and it didn\u2019t make me want you and it didn\u2019t make me yours.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I leaned forward as far as the chain around my wrist would let me and my glare cut through him like a blade.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAll it did was show me exactly what you really are underneath all your pretty words and fake charm. You\u2019re a coward and you\u2019re a monster and you\u2019re a man who\u2019s too weak to win a woman without spilling innocent blood first.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I could see his jaw tighten and his eyes were burning with rage but I wasn\u2019t finished with him yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018And even if you kill Tristan too it still won\u2019t make me yours Daxon. You\u2019ll just be a murderer standing in a room full of the ghosts of people you\u2019ve killed while screaming at a woman who will never ever love you back no matter what you do to her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The silence between us was electric and tense and dangerous but I held his gaze and kept smiling because for the first time since this nightmare began l felt like I had some kind of power again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want to know something else?\u201d I said and my voice was getting stronger with each word that came out of my mouth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re stupid and you\u2019re weak and you\u2019re pathetic. Because even after everything you\u2019ve done and after all this blood you\u2019ve spilled and all this pain you\u2019ve caused, I am still his and I will always be his.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daxon\u2019s face darkened and I could see the fury rolling off him in waves but I wasn\u2019t done destroying him yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018You know what the really funny part is though?\u2018 I laughed and it was bitter and cold but it was real.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if I did say his name that night it wasn\u2019t because I loved him then. I barely even felt anything for him back then and I probably just thought he was attractive or interesting or whatever. But you turned that tiny little nothing into this whole obsession and you killed people over it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I shook my head and looked at him like he was the most pathetic thing I\u2019d ever seen in my life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou created your own worst nightmare Daxon. If you had just been a good mate and treated me right I probably would have forgotten all about Tristan Hayes and been happy with you.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But instead you became obsessed with a man I barely thought about and you turned him into the love of my life by being so terrible that anyone else looked perfect in comparison.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
15:25 Sat, Jan 10\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 175\u00a0<\/p>\n
His hands were clenched into fists at his sides and I could see a vein pulsing in his forehead but I kept going because I wanted to hurt him the way he d\u00a0<\/p>\n
hurt me and everyone I cared about.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So congratulations Daxon you played yourself. You turned a random attractive guy I might have thought about once into my soulmate and the love of my life. And now even if you kill him I\u2019ll spend the rest of my life loving his memory instead of you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShut up,\u201d he said through gritted teeth but his voice was shaking with rage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Why should I shut up? You wanted to talk about the truth right? Well here\u2019s the truth. You\u2019re a failure as a man and as a mate and as a human being. You had everything you could have wanted and you threw it all away because you were too insecure to handle the fact that your mate might have thought\u00a0<\/p>\n
about someone else for five seconds.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I leaned back against the wall and looked at him with disgust.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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