Chapter Seventy Five

(Damien's POV)

The decision I had to make weighed on my shoulders.

Even as I walked into the dungeons where Diego had been kept waiting.

I walked in alone.

Diego didn't stare up at me; his gaze never left his hands.

"You believed I had fucked your mate; could this be why you turned against me?" I asked.

"I never believed you could do such a thing," he says.

I stared at the injuries I had inflicted on him; his ear had been completely torn off; he needed a healer; but he was a traitor and couldn't be treated any better than that.

"It hadn't been the way you think. Your mate had poisoned me; I had thought I was with Lena; believe me, I could never do that, she tricked me."

"I do believe you. I knew you couldn't go that length, but I had been so mad. Yet, that was not the reason.

Years ago, I had a sister; her name is Alice. She had been stolen away from us five years before I was born. The incident faded so quickly, and my parents discarded everything that belonged to her. They