Chapter 112: No Longer a Substitute

Ryker’s POV

I broke into a deep chuckle as my foolishness came into my face to mock me. Willow was one of them.

Ella had warned me, but I refused to listen to her. I didn’t want to believe that the one I wanted to keep loving was the enemy I was searching for. I didn’t want to believe that I had been protecting the wrong person.

I thought Ella was just being childish when she made those accusations. I thought she was maybe trying to get back at Willow for the way Willow treated her the first time, but as Willow stood in front of making those silly comments, it became clear.

The dark veil in my eyes fell off, and I saw her for who she truly was.

She wasn’t the angel I had painted her to be. She wasn’t the perfect Luna, my heart needed. She was a fraud and a liar. She was cruel and cold-hearted.

“You are their accomplice in all this,” I whispered in a tone that might have sounded like a question, but it was nowhere near a question. She was the knight who went around making the moves to