Now Or Never

Silver:

My heart was pounding, both from anger and from fear. Alpha Damon struggled to meet my eyes as guilt filled him, but I didn’t care about his guilt. I was concerned about what his guilt meant for me. He didn’t say anything in response to my question and as the minutes passed, my heart became made up against him.

“Won’t you answer me?” I asked. “Can you even answer me?”

I saw his face change, from guilt slowly into a hardened look. He gave me a steely look, and just then, I knew he was done trying to convince me.

“I told Gwyddion not to tell you anything yet. I wanted to tell you myself,” he said and my eyes widened in disbelief. That was all he could say about this?

“So you’re more bothered about how I found out than what exactly I found out?” I asked. ‘’What’s going to happen now, then. What’s going to happen now that I know.”

He watched me with an expression I couldn’t name for a while before letting out the words that broke me.

“I’ve already come this far. A lot is at st