Chapter 267

• [Ona]
• Atremi’s gray eyes look sincere as he sits there chained to my bed, his face turned up towards me like he was still my loyal champion, and not the deceiving snake his recent actions have revealed him to be. I wish I could still trust him, and yet, in all honesty, even without what had happened to Orion and Primus, I’d have been angry seeing him here, sitting possessively next to my oldest daughter.
• Our history is long and deep. We’ve saved one another countless times on the battlefield, and before meeting Daax, I would have said he was my closest confidant. And when my world fell apart, when I found myself unable to manage an existence without my mate, Atremi was the one to help me piece myself back together again. And when my daughter went missing, he was the first person I contacted on the surface to keep an eye out for her and report back what he discovered.