Chapter 16: Roman to the Orphanage

Evelyn’s POV

I was shaking with rage.

Does Tristan think my soldiers are dogs? That he can put lashes on their necks?!

"Why didn’t you come to me?" I asked, "If I knew about this earlier, I never would’ve let Tristan bully you like this!"

Trent gritted his teeth, "You think I didn’t try? I went to the packhouse to find you, but Tristan stopped me. He said you told him to pass on a message: you’re now the esteemed Luna of Blazewood Pack, and people like us all come from a poor, backward, small place. So we shouldn’t keep bothering you. It was too embarrassing."

"What?!" I shouted. "I never said anything like that!"

Trent shook his head, " I was really disappointed in you before. I thought you had forgot about your roots. But now I see…it was all Tristan’s lies! He wants to drive a wedge between us."

Now I finally saw why Trent treated me so coldly when he first saw me.

He thought I had abandoned the warriors from my homeland.

Fury burned in my chest, nearly overwhelming my emotio