Chapter 127: Xander's Man Crush

(Xander POV)

Spoiler alert: the final wave of the attack did not go as planned. Or at least not the way that I planned.

Before I explain what happened, I need to back up a little bit and explain some more about how Ellis factored into all of this. Fully understanding Ellis’s motives and his role will become important later.

Admittedly, looking back on it, it is a little tough for even me to understand what I was thinking back then. Was it my desperation that caused me to trust Ellis so much? Was it my immaturity? Was it my love for Piper?

I don’t know. But I suppose the best place to start is this simple cliché:

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

I think this saying comes the closest to explaining why —despite knowing Ellis for such a short period of time— he and I became very close very quickly.

Indeed, from our initial conversations, it became obvious that Ellis hated Leo Bloodstone even more than I did. And because of his hatred, rules did not matter to him. Nor did et