Chapter 30

EMMA

The image was too much, and a furious blush hit my cheeks. He seemed damn well amused by the blush.

“Where was your mom in all of this?” he asked me after a moment.

My mother was never a mother. She was a monster. She worked so well with Ezekiel and Heath. I had always thought she was part of the reason they attacked the pack, but I never found proof. The feeling in my gut told me it was true though, and my feelings were never wrong.

“She was there. She said Ezekiel used his Alpha command to make her comply, but I never believed her. When they thought I was knocked out with the wolfsbane, I’d hear her talking to them about my progress. She acted as if I was some fucking science experiment. She was the one to give them ideas on how to break me. She said I was weak and would submit one way or another. If a certain tactic didn’t work, she would give them bright new ideas of how to destroy my will.”

My mother and I were never close. Once Papa was killed, it was like all pretenses