Ch. 20 Shame On You

Elena

Exhaustion, so deep I feel it in my bones. That’s the only way to describe how I feel after the events of the evening. Well that and a sense of disbelief. It’s all too horrendous to be real.

As I shower off the sweat and stench of death that is probably only imagined, I force my mind to focus on the lesser of two evils. Mason. He broke me in ways I can’t even explain to myself. So why should I care about his feelings? I’m blaming it on the mate bond.

Still, the look on his face when he caught me with Asher tonight split my heart in two. I never want to see his beautiful features marred with so much pain ever again. I certainly don’t want to be the one to put it there.

You would think that makes me soft, caring about his feelings that way. But the fact I never considered what my betrayal of our bond could do to him probably means I’m really the heartless bitch I’ve tried so hard to become. Yay me.

That’s a moral dilemma that requires way more of my brain capacity tha