~Rafe~
Draxler's daughter is human. The irony is sickening. Did he never think of her face while he was destroying my sister? He brutalized the women of my pack and forced my own flesh and blood to watch... to learn.
I'll do the same to his daughter. I'll make her feel every ounce of betrayal and trauma her father gave my sister before she took her own life.
Eloise documented it all. Every moment is there, trapped in her journal. I can't believe she didn't think I was worth the truth. But she was scared—scared of her own brother. She thought I'd grown cold, too obsessed with the Lycan king's seat I took at eighteen to care for her. She was too terrified to even go to Bruno or Sucre, whose lives have already been ground to dust by that man.
Just like her father did, I try establishing trust with the whole mate-bond talk—not to cherish it, but to weaponize it. I want her to feel the warmth of safety just long enough for the coldness to feel like a betrayal she never saw coming.
