Chapter 38: Confessions and Discoveries

TRISTAN:

I looked at Dahlly’s expression, and I knew she was serious when she told me she wanted to talk.

There was no way I could escape her questions, and because of what I had done, I had no choice but to face them. After all, I did owe her some explanation and apology.

But how come she knew the right buttons to push? Why does she remember the things I was trying so hard to hide from her?

When she asked me about torturing people, I panicked internally. At that time when I said it, I was referring to my enemies – the people who had caused my mother, father, and the rest of the Shadow Rune pack to perish, and somehow, in one way or another, Dahlia might be part of them…

Because she might really be the one who had caused my mother to lose her life, she might really be one of them, and for that, I was deathly afraid.

I considered masking my answers with lies, but looking at her earnest light blue eyes, I was finding it extr