Ashes of a Vow
Her stomach was bandaged, but her face wore a victorious smile.
"Do you know what he told me just now?" She pulled a small crystal out of a bag on her wheelchair.
The crystal glowed, projecting an image into the air.
I saw myself thirteen years ago—in rags, covered in wounds, taken and broken by three rival Alphas. I was crawling on the ground, weeping, begging for mercy.
"Shut up!" I snarled.
"He said," Seraphina continued, letting the humiliating images play, "that he only saved you back then out of pity. But now, he's found the woman he was truly meant to love."