Chapter 40 : Downfall

*Charlotte*

“You need to fix this, Charlotte,” Alexander demanded ruthlessly. “So as soon as you are dry, go and apologize to Sarah.”

“Apologize?” I repeated, looking up at him with wide, stunned eyes. But I didn’t see understanding or compassion there, only a bitter cold that left me aching down to my bones.

He was right. I knew it just as well as he did. What I had done had risked everything for the pack - risked war and a total collapse of the peace between Blue Star and Dragon Wing but…

I wasn’t the one who had started this fight. I only finished it.

I bit my bottom lip hard, glaring at the floor below me. I couldn’t admit that I was wrong. I couldn’t kneel in front of Sarah and apologize for saying and doing what I did because I wasn’t sorry.

I wasn’t a saint and I didn’t have the patience of one. I’d suffered the humiliation and frustration of her insulting me, even using violence to trip me and trying to steal my fiance right in front of me ever since she’d