15- CONFESSION

LILA

Blaise fought with inner demons that remained elusive to my understanding. One moment, he was calm and collected like a placid lake, the next, he erupts into a raging river. For two long years, I had carried the relentless desire for death, but a glimmer of hope had pierced through my darkness when Erick told me that my brother had uncovered a secret about the late Luna that led to her false accusations against him. It was this tiny shard of hope that kindled a determination in me.

My brother Markus had committed the grave mistake of killing the Luna and her pup. I wasn't avenging his death, but I wanted to cleanse my family's name from the mud of accusations. My mission was to prove that Markus was not a rapist, and for that, I had decided to live.

I had decided to do whatever Blaise wanted, but my will to live was not only for myself but also fuelled by Cassie's plight. Cassie had been thrown back into prison because they found out she was the daughter of the former rogue l