Sabrina’s POV
“So you tried to kill everyone in my life for your family?” I ask him, Aiden sitting on his bed.
Every fibre of my being wanted to forgive him. I want to go back to the love making and being happy as we get to know more of each other, falling deeper in love but deep down I know that it will never be possible.
I want to believe him that he meant Drastos no harm. That he was just acting out, the killing of Max was not properly thought off. Aiden saying he loves my son wasn’t exactly settling in with me, no it was not.
He tried to kill Max.
Almost leaving my poor son without a father, stealing that from him. The genuine love of a father, a man I shared so many memories with and thought I’d spend all my life with. Maximus is the father of my only child, forget who he is to me. He is a father and his life is more important to Adrastos, he will need him as time goes on.
“I admit, my actions were foolish. I was selfish but I know I was lashing out. I’m in so much pain and to top it off, I know I don’t have all of you. I knew it before doing all of this but it was confirmed when you heard that Xander was poisoned. You dropped everything, everyone to save him. At that moment, he was all you cared about.” Aiden says to me.
Trying to guilt me in to forgiving him. There was zero sincerity in him..
“Oh yeah? What would you have me do Mr. I’m not in love with my best friend? You want me to honestly believe what actually tinked you off the cliff was my new wolf pet?” I ask Aiden, who stands up to try defend himself. His face showing so much anger as his wolf coming through his eyes.
I was getting warm. If I just keep pushing..
“Oh did I enter uncharted territory? Am I not allowed in? You want me to help ease the pain right? Come clean. Talk to me… how did that make you feel? When I stripped your loved ones of their identities? Rendering them completely useless. Turning them in to the very thing they despise, earthlings? Forcing your mother to play omega on earth when she’s all about used to diamond views?” I taunt him.
I need him to explode. Show the real Aiden, not the love sick puppy he made known to me. No.
This man was twisted and definitely everything like his father and brother. Stupid of me to think he would be any different. Yeah sure, mated to the moon goddess really takes some getting used to, I won’t deny that.
“Stop it Sabrina.” Aiden warns, growling at me.
“What? I know I’m getting somewhere. You think your little tear show will help you? Yeah my heart aches, it hurts because I don’t want to be like this with you. I don’t want to hear that you’re in pain…. nobody wants to hear that about the one they love. Your pain is valid Aiden, it is understandable and I get it, you’re all alone right now and I’m all you have left but that does not give you the right to kill people off. What did you say when we all thought you were behind the poisoning? Oh that’s not something a real man would do. You are all macho and if you want a man dead, you’ll fight them? Where was the wolf in you when you decided to poison people?” I ask..
Aiden’s body was tensing up. I had struck a nerve and something in me was telling I was getting warmer.
“I mean damn, I don’t think I’d ever opt for that either. You could’ve gone to earth and crushed them in seconds! Made your pain known. You took the time to actually orchestrate this… dragging people in, under the guise that you don’t want a man that is mated to another male to rule this realm or maybe it’s the way I run things. No, you could have just snatched Percy’s head right off his body and see that, that’s the anger I can understand because that is the anger I had for your family. The wolf in me went straight for the hearts, I didn’t want to listen to your brother yap right on. No! He kept going on and on, with my brother chained up like some slave! A whole werewolf king and brother to your fucken moon goddess! His relation to my family disregarded when they took him prisoner. Killing off his mate, a part of him died! You think I’d go sit in my office and plan to poison your family? Rally up some troops to support me and do my dirty work? No! that’s not how I was raised. I act as a wolf should and I take my battles head on. You’re no different than Percy actually.” I say. Hearing him growl at my words.
“Don’t compare me to that earthling!” He says, making me chuckle.
“Oh yeah definitely. He sided with a whole Rogue alpha to avoid going to war. You fought to become King on earth and smoked everyone there but when it was important, when the time came to actually fight for your family or just act out as we normally do, you chose the cowardly way. You hire someone to concoct a liquid to kill the people in my life. You forget you poisoned Anthony! You poisoned my son! You poisoned the father of my child!” I scream, my words actually getting me to snap when they should be working on him.
“I’m no coward! Oh I wanted to go down to earth and kill those fuckers. I thought about it…” Aiden says..
“Oh yeah? But then what did you do? Were you too coward to come after my brother? Scared he will knock you out?” I ask, seeing him fist his hands.
“I’m not scared of Anthony or anyone for that matter.” He says to me.
“Sure? Because he was the first to be poisoned so maybe you actually wanted to kill off my family but now thinking about it, you knew that fighting with Anthony or Hunter would be a losing battle. You can’t fight me so you couldn’t go against them, ever. So you chose poison… but I’ll give it to you. You got us, had us going. Playing the perfect mate as you made love to me over and over again while all of this was playing out.” I say, making him smile.
“It doesn’t change the fact that your mother is still slaving away for some alpha on earth…. it really doesn’t change anything. She could be down there being beaten senseless day in and day out, knowing she can’t do anything about it because she has no strength or power. The very power she abused, is being used on her.” I say before Aiden rushes to me and his hand finding my neck.
I chuckle, his grip getting tighter before I push him away.
“What do you want from me Sabrina?” He screams out.
“I want the truth. This is not about your family or your little dog girlfriend right now. That could’ve been what got you angry and in pain but the plotting? The playing dumb in front of me and my family? That’s sinister. You were able to look me in the eyes and tell me you love me while planning to kill my loved ones.” I say, Aiden’s eyes bulging at the mention of loved ones.
“Yeah loved ones. You targeted my brother you asshole. You went for Xander and Max.. Percy.” I say Percy’s name in a whisper as his face flashes through my mind.
My eyes brim with tears as all the feelings I had for him play through me. Feelings of love and hate… his smile and face that won me over every damn day and how he was trying to redeem himself.
“I killed your father and brother, I pulled their hearts out and I enjoyed it. I relished in it so much that I had them hang up in the air to show off my perfect kill. I did all of that and your revenge is to throw some vile liquid in to their bodies? What are you, human? You chose a different kind of violence. A violence that we don’t identify with. If I stand on the podium at the next meeting and I tell the world of your actions…. well I’m sure some would agree with you in taking revenge but you would be the joke of the century for choosing poison as your weapon. You were born a weapon! Gifted such strength only to resort to potions. You are a coward.” I say.
“I am no coward! I planned all of that because I wanted to see you suffer. I wanted to feel you suffer. I wanted to watch you cry and worry. Walking around like a zombie trying to figure out why all of that was happening.” He says to me.
Finally getting some honesty. We were now getting to the truth that I hoping for… although I am now getting scared. I think I understood now his end goal.. I just have to say it out loud and watch his face confirm it.
“You could have accomplished all of that by killing them the only way we know how. Percy stood no chance with you! Neither does Xander or Max… I was still going to suffer. Suffer knowing my own true mate offed the father of my child. The fact that I have to raise my son and to face him, tell him that I am mated to you but you’re the one that killed his father. How would he look at me? I can’t kill you and even if I could, I would never be able to go through with it because of our bond. You were selfish in your killings. This has nothing to do with grief! You also want to be king. You want to take Anthony’s place and probably thought with him out of the way, being mated to me made you the best candidate until Adrastos comes of age… or wait, get rid of my son and there won’t be anyone to take it from you unless we have a son of our own. Which you would never dispute, that’s your blood and that is why we do what we do. We rise to power to give our family power.” I say, caught him with my words as he listens intently.
“Maybe you are in pain. Maybe you miss your family and had they just let you settle in, you could have let them in on your plans but they were too impatient and your little threat did not deter them. By killing them, I took out your support structure and besides making me pay, you had to take out my family.” I say…
Tears finally falling from my eyes as I come to a shocking realization….