Helanie:
I had stayed in a hotel room for the night with my mother. And I felt really weird doing so. It had been such a long time since I felt like I actually had a mother. From the little she told me, I had a feeling there was more to why she had acted so cold toward me in the past. Now she had fallen asleep after comforting me, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t sleep at all.
I left the room and started wandering around the lobby before heading outside to take a stroll. It was within the pack, so it was definitely safe. There weren’t going to be many Zharns around, if any had even managed to sneak in. Pack security had tightened around the borders after the Zharn had shown up.
I had my arms folded over my chest, my eyes on the moon, as I wondered how it all ended up like this, if I would ever be able to forgive Emmet. I was so angry. Still so angry. And it wasn’t only because I believed Emmet had done this to me. I had been willing to forgive Kaye before. But it was different with Kaye and Emmet. Because while Emmet forgot everyone else, he remembered that he had Azura.
That’s when I began to recall some of the other things Emmet had told me. He said she had cursed him. So what if he really had lost his memory, and the only reason he remembered Azura was because of the curse? Because that was another curse. So maybe it wasn’t that he missed her. I tried to argue with myself, my head hurting.
’And what if he said all that about the broken curse because he knew he had pushed us into the well and he was trying to come up with an explanation for later, when we found out?’ My wolf didn’t help at all.
Thinking that made me take a deep breath and let it out. ’I guess it’s up to me who I choose to trust.’
’So, who do you trust?’ Cora asked.
"Cora, I believe what Emmet said. She cursed him. When he pushed me, he—" I trailed off.
"He only remembered Azura. So whatever it was, it made him sacrifice me and my baby. It told him that the only person he knew–Azura—would come back if he got rid of me," I mumbled, continuing my thoughts.
However, Cora had a different take on it.
"Who is ’it’? It is himself. Doesn’t that make him a bad person? Let’s just say he forgot everything. He wasn’t in his animal state. He was still very much alive in human form. So if he chose to hurt another being just to bring back his lover, doesn’t that make him awful? Because the curse didn’t ask him to kill you. Neither curse required him to get rid of you. That was his choice. One curse made him forget everyone. The other made him remember Azura."
’Oh my God, I’m losing my mind.’ I groaned.
Cora was right. And once again, she confused me. I don’t know what to do. I’m just so upset. My baby was lost—so that one psycho, clingy ex could come back.
I grunted, "and then there is my husband," I hissed. I almost said it out loud.
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