CHAPTER 7

Valor was standing there holding what I presumed was a rogue by the throat up against the wall. I gasped in horror, and Valor started punching the man and shouting, "Why are you here?" "I'll murder you." The poor man fell to the ground and coughed up blood. He managed to say, "Does your mate know that you torture rogues in here?" His question shocked me. Torture?

I was praying that Valor would say he wasn't torturing rogues but that was not the case. Instead, I heard, "No, and she will not know. She doesn't need to know everything in my life, and this is my secret." I stepped back in horror. Valor was scaring me, I could even feel my wolf retreating into the back of my mind. I knew that Valor killed but I had no idea that he actually tortured rogues, presumably to their death. It made me sick to think I have a mate like this who does all this. I could have lived with a bit of killing, which I would have thought would stop after finding me, but this was not the case.

I swallowed the lu