She Told the Truth–2
Especially after that stunt she pulled getting me to sleep with her.
*Then explain why you’re reacting so strongly to her dating Kane?” he persisted.
“I told you already! I wouldn’t care if she was dating any other man, but there’s something
off about that cop.”
We were going in circles, and it was only making me more irritated. I’d thought at least he would understand, but apparently not. Instead, he had this ridiculous idea that I was
angry because I had feelings for Thea and was jealous.
“Let me just say, what Thea did seven years ago was wrong. We’ve treated her badly because of it, but what if she wasn’t lying when she said she was drunk? What if she’s been telling the truth?”
“That’s not possible.”
*Is it? We all wanted you with Aurora. All of us except Thea. After it happened, we needed
someone to blame. It was easier to blame the girl who had a crush on you for years than
to accept that you both messed up.”
I looked at him quietly, frozen in place. What the hell was wrong with him?
I watched as he pulled out his phone and dialed a number.
“What are you doing?” I asked suspiciously.
“Something we should have done a long time ago… I’m finding out the truth about that
night,” he said.
We waited for a moment, then someone picked up. I stared at him dumbly as I listened to him tell the person to get the security footage from the bar and hotel. Then he ordered
them to deliver it within the hour.
‘I don’t know what you hope to accomplish by digging up this shit,” I said after he hung
- up.
It was all in the past. We all knew what happened, so what good would digging it up do?
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“Besides knowing the truth? It’ll clear things up. Like I said, I believe you have feelings for Thea, and they’ve been there for a long time. Your bitterness over what you think was her betrayal is what’s stopping you from admitting the truth,” he looked me directly in the
eyes.
His green eyes, so similar to mine, challenged me to contradict him.
I turned away and sat down. I refused to let him see how all this was affecting me. I was angry at him now too, but he didn’t seem to notice or care because he was busy doing something on his phone.
I don’t know how long we sat in my office before his phone suddenly rang.
I watched him carefully, seeing his expression shift from shock to shame. My curiosity got
the better of me. I wanted to see what had him so disturbed now. “Damien?” I called his
name cautiously.
He looked up. His eyes were unfocused, and he wordlessly handed me the phone. I took it
with shaking hands, knowing I wasn’t going to like what I saw.
Slowly, I looked at his phone. I watched as everything unfolded, watched as the truth I’d clung to for so long crumbled. I watched as the real events of that night were laid bare.
I cursed as I stood up, unable to bear what the video meant.
Thea had been telling the truth all along. We were both drunk, which meant that for the past seven years, she’d been blamed and punished for something that wasn’t her fault.
“Fuck!” I shouted, unable to contain the pressure inside me.
My wolf howled inside. He’d always insisted we’d misunderstood her, and now the truth proved it. For seven years, I’d treated her as the family disgrace, as the cause of our marriage, when in fact we’d both been drunk, both unable to think clearly.
I couldn’t face what I’d done to her. Just thinking about how I’d ignored her, blamed her,
humiliated her in front of the Pack filled me with bitter regret.
I had so much to make up for, but I didn’t know where to start. And now, she had Kane in
her life, a man I deeply mistrusted.
