CHAPTER 186: TRUE MONSTER

ARTEMIS’ POV

I leave Sera alone in her room once we get back.

She retreats into the back of her mind, silent and unresponsive.

I can feel her troubled emotions clashing around, yet I'm crippled by my inability to assist her or at least alleviate a significant portion of the pain she bears.

I exit the room after she mumbles a request to be left alone, understanding her need to decompress from everything—the betrayal by her mother and the revelation of her father's death.

It's mostly my fault; I wish I had never suggested finding her mother. Yet, maybe she needed to know, to put it all behind her.

Guards are stationed at her door to ensure her comfort before I leave.

Before heading down to the little building, already evacuated, with the human girls taken somewhere safe before they can be reunited with their families or find a new home, I walk into the building and down to the basement where I was told they kept my mate for a few hours before deciding to sell her off like property.