Chapter 65

Thane looked stiff and shaken as he revealed the tragic story of his past. After organizing himself, he finally explained what really happened.

"Maybe you don't know this, Elinor, but me and Liam, we used to be enemies who respected each other," Thane said in a severe tone. "We were always in conflict with the honourable in us. Liam had a mate, and they were a good match. When Liam found his mate, he gained more power than ever."

Thane continued his story. "There was once a dispute among another mafia group, which, of course, involved us. That's when everything changed. I arrived first and didn't know that Liam's mate, a woman named Melani, was in danger. The people who kidnapped her then took her hostage, and that's when they did something that took Melani's life."

Thane looks devastated as he recounts this part. "When Melani died, Liam was in a lot of pain. He blamed it all on me and blamed everything on me. He vowed to do the same thing I did to Melani, which was to take my mate. S