She Told the Truth – 1

Sebastian’s POV

“Goddamn it!” I cursed, slamming the ice pack onto my desk. The bruise on my face still throbbed, but it was nothing compared to the storm raging inside me. I still couldn’t believe I’d gotten into a fight with that bastard. I was so fucking angry that I’d let his words get to me.

The office door suddenly swung open, and Damien walked in, surprise written all over his face when he saw my condition.

“Who the hell did that to your face?” he asked, eyebrows shooting up.

“That son of a bitch Kane,” I growled low in my throat. Getting punched by that self-righteous law enforcement asshole was an insult to my Alpha status. If we hadn’t been in Thea’s house, I would’ve shown him what a real Ashworth Alpha was capable of.

“The cop?” Damien asked curiously. “Thea’s new male?”

At those words, the rage inside me exploded. I slammed my fist down on the desk, the solid wood making an ominous cracking sound.

“He’s not her fucking male!” I snarled, feeling my teeth beginning to sharpen again.

“Calm down, your eyes are changing color,” Damien warned, taking a cautious step back.

I took a deep breath, forcing my wolf to retreat. I’d been losing control too many times over Thea lately, and that wasn’t how an Alpha should behave.

“What’s gotten into you?” Damien asked. “You’ve never cared this much about Thea’s business before.”

I paced my office, my wolf similarly restless inside me. “There’s something off about Kane, I can feel it. My wolf didn’t trust him from the moment we met, and my wolf is never wrong.”

I hadn’t been able to dig deeper into his background yet. On paper, he seemed like an ordinary werewolf with nothing special about him, but something about him set me on edge. He was definitely hiding something.

“So what were you two doing? Comparing wolf sizes?” Damien raised an eyebrow.

“We were helping Thea move furniture,” I explained, taking another deep breath to calm myself. “Then that self-important prick told me to back off, said Thea was his and he wouldn’t let me ruin what they had.”

Damien’s expression was somewhere between confusion and amusement. “That’s it? Sebastian, you’re divorced. She’s not your Luna anymore. Kane, as her suitor, has every right to ask you to keep your distance. Isn’t that exactly what you demanded from Thea when you started dating Aurora?”

I clenched my fists in frustration. “It’s not like that. Why can’t any of you see it?”

I grabbed the files on my desk irritably, my fingers nearly tearing through the carefully prepared contracts. I slammed them back down, scattering office supplies everywhere. First hearing that Aurora had threatened Leo and Roman did nothing, then having to watch Kane and Thea make eyes at each other.

She was completely infatuated with him. So much that she couldn’t see anything else. What the hell was wrong with her? She was the most cautious person I knew, yet she’d let him into her life without question.

“What are you talking about?” he asked, studying me intently.

“I don’t know how to explain it, but there’s something about him I don’t like. Something just feels wrong.”

It made no fucking sense, but I couldn’t shake the feeling. That’s why I’d had my Beta secretly put people on investigating him.

Damien was quiet for a moment, and when he spoke, I felt the urge to punch him.

“Could it be that you’re jealous?”

“I’m not fucking jealous of him,” I growled. “Why would I be jealous? I don’t have feelings for Thea, remember?”

What he was saying was too ridiculous for words. I couldn’t possibly be jealous over Thea. She was just my son’s mother, and I was looking out for her. Nothing more.

“Look, you were married to her for seven years. It’s hard to be with someone that long and not develop any feelings. Especially when they’re not actually evil people.”

I stared at him in shock, then shook my head. “I can’t have feelings for her. I married her because of Leo. My heart has always belonged to Aurora, you know that. That’s why I can’t possibly have feelings for her.”

He was completely insane. People stayed in loveless marriages all the time. Seven years didn’t change the fact that I wasn’t Thea’s biggest fan.

She Told the Truth – 2

Especially after that stunt she pulled getting me to sleep with her.

Then explain why you’re reacting so strongly to her dating Kane?” he persisted.

“I told you already! I wouldn’t care if she was dating any other man, but there’s something off about that cop.”

We were going in circles, and it was only making me more irritated. I’d thought at least he would understand, but apparently not. Instead, he had this ridiculous idea that I was angry because I had feelings for Thea and was jealous.

“Let me just say, what Thea did seven years ago was wrong. We’ve treated her badly because of it, but what if she wasn’t lying when she said she was drunk? What if she’s been telling the truth?”

“That’s not possible.”

Is it? We all wanted you with Aurora. All of us except Thea. After it happened, we needed someone to blame. It was easier to blame the girl who had a crush on you for years than to accept that you both messed up.”

I looked at him quietly, frozen in place. What the hell was wrong with him?

I watched as he pulled out his phone and dialed a number.

“What are you doing?” I asked suspiciously.

“Something we should have done a long time ago… I’m finding out the truth about that night,” he said.

We waited for a moment, then someone picked up. I stared at him dumbly as I listened to him tell the person to get the security footage from the bar and hotel. Then he ordered them to deliver it within the hour.

‘I don’t know what you hope to accomplish by digging up this shit,” I said after he hung up.

It was all in the past. We all knew what happened, so what good would digging it up do?

“Besides knowing the truth? It’ll clear things up. Like I said, I believe you have feelings for Thea, and they’ve been there for a long time. Your bitterness over what you think was her betrayal is what’s stopping you from admitting the truth,” he looked me directly in the eyes.

His green eyes, so similar to mine, challenged me to contradict him.

I turned away and sat down. I refused to let him see how all this was affecting me. I was angry at him now too, but he didn’t seem to notice or care because he was busy doing something on his phone.

I don’t know how long we sat in my office before his phone suddenly rang.

I watched him carefully, seeing his expression shift from shock to shame. My curiosity got the better of me. I wanted to see what had him so disturbed now. “Damien?” I called his name cautiously.

He looked up. His eyes were unfocused, and he wordlessly handed me the phone. I took it with shaking hands, knowing I wasn’t going to like what I saw.

Slowly, I looked at his phone. I watched as everything unfolded, watched as the truth I’d clung to for so long crumbled. I watched as the real events of that night were laid bare.

I cursed as I stood up, unable to bear what the video meant.

Thea had been telling the truth all along. We were both drunk, which meant that for the past seven years, she’d been blamed and punished for something that wasn’t her fault.

“Fuck!” I shouted, unable to contain the pressure inside me.

My wolf howled inside. He’d always insisted we’d misunderstood her, and now the truth proved it. For seven years, I’d treated her as the family disgrace, as the cause of our marriage, when in fact we’d both been drunk, both unable to think clearly.

I couldn’t face what I’d done to her. Just thinking about how I’d ignored her, blamed her, humiliated her in front of the Pack filled me with bitter regret.

I had so much to make up for, but I didn’t know where to start. And now, she had Kane in her life, a man I deeply mistrusted.