Everything was confusing.
Taya had no idea where she was, how long it had been, how she was alive, who this strange man was…
Amon seemed to have noticed the doubt in her eyes. He put down the medicine, sat up straight, leaned against the back of the sofa, and looked at her.
“Do you want to know why you’re still alive?”
Taya really wanted to reply to him, but she didn’t feel like she could force the words out, so she just blinked in response.
“The person who saved you was my mate, your sister.”
Taya blinked again.
“I found a way to change her into a wolf shifter, so I could mate her, so she could be with me for so long as I lived. But then she decided she didn’t want it, felt that so long as she was a wolf, she wouldn’t be able to get into heaven.”
Amon snorted.
“She was desperate to find a way to…pa*s her wolf on to someone else. When George was contacted about finding a heart for you, my mate figured it out and saw an opportunity. She could save you and save her. At least, she thought she was saving herself, thanks to her religion.”
Amon leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees.
“I found her, chased her down and tried to stop her. But it was too late, apparently. One of you was already dead, and we thought the dead one was you… The other body didn’t smell like wolf, like my mate. So we took you and left that body.
“Unfortunately, the ritual had been completed. Her wolf is in you. You’re healed, and she’s dead, her ashes in the grave meant for you.”
Amon didn’t say anything else for a long time.
“Have you ever loved anyone deeply?” he asked out of the blue.
There used to be, but the moment Griffon asked Tara to answer her phone before Taya died, she had completely given up…
“Is it that man named Silas?”
Taya was surprised, thinking, How does Amon know about Silas?
“I have bad news for you. He thought you were dead and shot himself in front of your grave.”
Taya was stunned. Her pupils dilated as she stared at Amon in disbelief.
Seeing that she didn’t believe him, Amon took out his phone, opened a news article, and handed it to her…
[Breaking news! Alpha Jackson Sterling commits suicide in cemetery!]
“I thought dying for love was something just in the movies.”
Amon gave a little laugh.
Taya was completely floored. She struggled to get up from the bed, but she couldn’t move.
No, he would never do something like this. She couldn’t believe it…but Amon had shown her the news article.
Her heart cracked, splintering into pieces inside of her.
She didn’t believe it at all, but tears welled up in her eyes and kept falling uncontrollably.
She struggled to support herself. “How… long… will it take… for… me to… recover?”
“I’m not a doctor. How would I know?”
She pursed her lips and stopped bothering him.
After sitting for a while, Amon felt bored, so he got up and left.
No one came in to check on her. All she could do was lie on the bed, unable to move.
In the afternoon, after the nurse gave her a sponge bath, George came in with a medical bag.
“Ms. Palmer, how are you feeling today?”
“Confused,” Taya managed to say. “Do you… know… about… my sister?”
George sat down by her bed and began to examine her arms and legs. “Your sister was a stupid, stupid girl. She had the greatest gift of all given to her, and she somehow figured out how to throw it away.”
He shook his head as he spoke.
Taya stared at George and remained silent, hoping he would say more.
Seeing the look in Taya’s eyes, George sighed and continued. “Your sister was five years older than you. When she was a child, you were escaping abroad, but she lost you on the way. She had been looking for you, but there was no news about you.
“Later, she met Amon. The Yardley pack is secretive and elite, keepers of the old ways that no one believes in anymore. Because they have clung to those old ways, others have brushed them off, and it’s been a detriment to all of wolf-kind. But that’s a different story.
“The ritual knowledge the Yardley pack holds is vast, and difficult for many to comprehend. Somehow, your sister managed to learn. Though, I believe her ridiculous desperation to rid herself of her wolf was a motivating factor.”
George wrapped up his exam and sat back.
“When Alpha Knight reached out to me regarding your situation, I was shocked to find that you were a match for Amon’s mate. I relayed the information to him, and your sister found out and seized the opportunity. The rest, as they say, is history.”
One thing kept replaying over and over in her mind: She had an elder sister…
However, she still didn’t understand why her sister had taken her and escaped abroad.
Her eyes were full of questions. She struggled to ask George, but he couldn’t give a specific answer.
“I’m not very knowledgeable about what happened to your sister when she was a child…”
“After I realized Amon had taken you from the hospital and not his mate, I planned to inform Alpha Knight. After all, he asked me to help you find a heart donor. But Amon forbid me from doing so.
“Now that you’re awake, I think you have the right to decide whether to tell Griffon Knight…”
When Taya heard Griffon’s name, her expression was pained.
Such a cold and heartless wolf would not care about her life and death.
“Don’t tell him…”
She would take her death as a farewell to the unbearable past.
From now on, she would have nothing to do with him.