Authors pov
Eira quickly stepped back Alert, she can’t let her guard down in front of him, even if she herself came to meet him.
“What do you want Lorenzo?… If you are really setting a trap for xavion then let me tell___”
“No!…”
He interrupted her.
“I am not here to hurt you Eira, I just want to tell you the truth…”
“What is it?… And why should I believe in any of your words… You are our enemy…”
Eira countered.
“I am not your enemy Eira, yes I want to kill xavion but I have nothing to do with you… Because you looks like the woman I loved more than myself…”
Lorenzo said.
“What?… You loved who?…”
Eira frowned, she got the hint but didn’t wanted to rush on anything.
“I loved Patricia…”
Lorenzo confessed.
“You loved her?… But she was in love with Xavion, No! She was acting and betrayed him…”
Eira said confused.
Lorenzo sighed.
“That’s what I want to tell you, you don’t know anything. Xavion has twisted the story in his favor so he can get your sympathy and play a victim card.”
“I don’t think xavion can be this manipulative… Why should I trust you over my mate…”
She snapped.
“Because he is lying to you, if he is not wrong then ask him why he lied to you about Marcel’s death… Marcel didn’t got killed by some unknown pack, xavion was the one who attacked him in the midnight, killed everyone and burn the mansion along with dead bodies. If you don’t trust me I can show you their burnt skeletons, it’s still there.”
Lorenzo said frustratingly.
“How do you know that he lied to me, we were in our bedroom when he told me that…”
Eira questioned suspiciously.
“What do you think, how did I know that you are here to meet me?… I have my own ways to find out things and xavion discussed everything with Aron… Aron is equally involved in all this…”
He chuckled bitterly.
Eira’s world started spinning by his words, she took the support of the tree to balance herself.
“What else?… I want to hear everything…”
She said and Lorenzo sighed in relief.
“Patricia never loved Xavion… She used to come in the forest to meet me but xavion saw her many times and got obsessed over her… She was the definition of Beauty and brain.”
Eira could see the admiration in his eyes.
“Xavion tried to approach her many times but she clearly rejected him… Which hurt his ego… He wanted Patricia at any cost as his love turned into obsession, he tried to use every way possible. He turned wolves against my family. I was a vampire who was leaving a secret life with few of my member’s. I had no reason to be his enemy until he destroyed my life. He killed my friends just to take his revenge on me…”
Eira was listening him carefully but his every word was piercing through her heart like a dagger.
“Xavion tried to persuade Marcel for Patricia, he thought that may be their families can accept that because Marcel was clearly against mine and Patricia’s love… But xavion couldn’t do anything at that moment as Marcel gave priorities to Patricia’s decisions. On other hand Valarie wanted to marry xavion but he clearly rejected her. Xavion’s decisions and doing caused many problems between both the families and it turned into war.”
“But Patricia killed Xavion’s parents…”
Eira frowned.
Lorenzo chuckled.
“One more lie… Patricia didn’t killed his parents, Marcel killed them. Patricia didn’t even knew about that because she was with me at that time… Infact xavion killed Patricia’s mother to take revenge for his parents…”
Eira held her head between her hands.
“So many people died just because of his ego and madness… He couldn’t digest the fact that she doesn’t want him. Patricia was in love with me. We wanted to live a happy life…”
She could see the pain on his face.
“I don’t know if he really wants you or not Eira… But I know one thing that he is seeing Patricia in you. He is trying to take everything from you which he couldn’t get it from her. She didn’t loved him like you, she didn’t accepted him as a lover…”
“But she was staying with him in the mansion… If she hated him then why she was with him. Are you sure she was really in love with you or may be she was deceiving you too…”
Eira tried to search for a loophole, trying to believe that this is all lie. Her heart wasn’t ready to believe this.
“Yes she was there because she wanted to make him pay for everything, he killed her mother and she wanted to take revenge. We all wanted that and I was with her…”
Lorenzo countered.
“Xavion thought that she has finally accepted him but he was wrong…”
“I don’t know if you are saying truth or not… What if you are lying… Why should I believe you over my mate…”
Eira questioned.
“I can show you that whatever I am saying is true…”
Lorenzo stated.
“Come closer…”
Eira hesitated and Lorenzo noticed it.
“If I wanted to hurt you then I would have done it by now, Eira… I just want you to know the truth…”
Eira stepped towards him and Lorenzo cupped her head in his hands .
“Close your eyes and see what your mate has done to all of us….”
Lorenzo had a power to show anyone his memories and that’s what he was doing to Eira.
Eira closed her eyes and everything started flashing in her mind like a fast-forward video.
The scene where xavion was following Patricia in the forest… The way he killed her mother and Lorenzo’s friends… The way he conspired… The way he killed Valarie… The way he killed Marcel… Everything was in front of her…
Lorenzo pulled his hands back.
“Did you see this?… This is the real xavion, whatever he is showing you is a facade. That man only knows how to destroy…”
Eira’s eyes went glossy and this time she didn’t hold them back.
“What do you want from me then?… It’s not like I can bring the dead’s back to life… Why are you telling me this now?…”
Eira’s throat tightened.
“You can… You can bring back, not all but at least one…”
Lorenzo Pleaded.
“What do you mean?…”
Eira frowned.
“Patricia is alive… Xavion has her…”
He declared and ground beneath her feet slipped away.
“But Valarie killed her…”
Eira said in disbelief, she was about to collapse on the ground.
“No! Patricia is alive… Xavion lied about that too…”