Chapter 27
Violet
The mood changed instantly. The cheating part was somewhat acceptable, but poisoning your own brother? He might’ve taken the crown from Dylan with that one.
“I didn’t mean for it to…I didn’t mean to nearly kill him. The poison was supposed to weaken him, just enough for me to win,” Kylan tried explaining himself. “But…it left him damaged. He can’t walk. Can’t shift. He can’t do anything, he’s bound to a wheelchair.”
He closed his eyes after the last part, then looked down. “He was never the same after
that.”
I could hear the regret in his voice, and I could understand his initial reaction about not
wanting to say anything at first. ·
This confession was brutal.
“My Mom knows, and she hates me for it. The only parent who ever cared for me calls me a monster, a demon–doesn’t want anything to do with me,” Kylan said. “I did it for her
too. I did it for both of us, but she’s so humiliated by the child she’s raised she told me to
die soon, and take it to the grave with me.”
He kept looking at the box, but the color hadn’t changed. He still had to keep going,
whether he liked it or not.
“My Dad knows. The Lycan King…he knows what I did. He’s never forgiven me for it. I
harmed his favorite son. His strongest son.‘
His eyes were still fixated on the box. “I don’t know if I would’ve won without the poison.
I don’t know if deserve that throne. Every day I feel like I’m getting punished by the
Moon Goddess for my sins, over and over.”
I swallowed my breath, fearing he might’ve been talking about our mate bond. Did he see
me as one of his punishments?
“Kylan…” Nate’s voice was soft, careful. By the looks of it, even he didn’t know he carried this kind of secret with him. “Does Kayden know?”
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Kylan didn’t answer right away, he grew an uncomfortable frown. “Yeah,” he finally admitted, his voice almost broken. “He knows.”
Nate’s expression tightened. He looked just as uncomfortable with the conversation as the rest of us. He practically worshipped the ground Kylan walked on, so I could only imagine how hard all of this had to be.
“You know what Kayden’s like,” Kylan exhaled. “He has always been too soft. He doesn’t treat me any differently, doesn’t hold it against me. He protects my image, pretends like it never happened. He’s kept it to himself this entire time.”
His anger grew with each word that left his mouth. “He makes me sick. He should hate me for what I did, but he doesn’t. He just accepts it. Accepts me.”
I failed to understand how something like that would make him angry. Despite everything, his brother still chose to stand by him.
“I don’t want him to like me, I want him to hate me,” Kylan expressed his feelings. “I want him to hate me so I can properly beg for his forgiveness and repay my sins by knowing he’ll never accept my apology,” he spoke. “That’s how I need to punish myself- by living with the fact that he’ll never forgive me.”
In my eyes, Kylan had never been one for deep words, but this time his message was clear. There was so much more behind him, and it made me wonder just how much more of himself he had been hiding all this time.
“Maybe you need to find your mate,” Dylan tried. “It’ll give you something else to live for.”
My heart skipped a beat as those words left his mouth, and then it skipped another when Kylan shook his head.
“When I settle for someone, it won’t be because the Moon Goddess decided for me. The
king forced me to be with Chrystal for years, and I don’t want that either,” Kylan stated. “I
want to choose someone myself. I won’t trap someone I don’t respect or love, like the king did to my mom–just because of the Moon Goddess.”
He glanced at me for a moment, and his words stung, knowing I was his mate. They were
directed at me. They had to be–he only had one mate.
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But one thing bothered me. If we didn’t love or respect each other, then why wouldn’t he accept my rejection?
Why would he go crazy over me supposedly flirting with Nate?
Nate cracked a laugh. “So, you’ll just take a thousand mistresses?” He concluded. “I can’t even imagine you truly loving anyone.”
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guys like.this piss me off. lack of respect much.
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Just like finding his own mate did and made him a better person.
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