Chapter Eighty Nine

“Do you trust me?” Konstantin asked. He was so close to me that I could perceive his scent.

For the past few days, I had made myself numb; I didn’t let myself think about what would happen to me or how I would be used till death; I didn’t let myself think of how I had fallen so low from being a Luna and a daughter to an Alpha to being a traitor and a sex slave; I didn’t let myself think of the new way Diego looked at me; I thought of nothing till now. Now all I wanted was a chance to start again; this couldn’t be my end; maybe I had made bad choices; maybe I should have never loved Damien; but I needed a chance to right my wrongs.

“Yes, I trust you,” I say to him, but it doesn’t sound like the truth. I do not trust anyone, not the Gamma or the Beta, not even Damien; they would always turn on me. Damien never believed me. This love, this love- whatever it was, was doomed from the start. I should have never fought to go past those walls he placed around himself.

Konstantin’s hands come