Alpha Damon (Sienna) novel Chapter 186

“Whatever you have to say, spill it out.”

“I need your help.”

That froze her.

For just a second, the steel in her spine wavered. “What did you say?”

“I said I need your help.”

She stared at me, unsure if this was another game, another manipulation. Her jaw clenched.

“You have a funny way of asking for it.” She said, looking away from me. “Mind you, you did the first time and only tried to create more conflicts between me and my mate.’

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“I didn’t come here to manipulate you. Not this time,” I added, and I meant it. “You want honesty? Fine. I’ll give it to you. I was raised to believe you were the enemy. That Damon was a man worth destroying. That Kael and Evelyn let my mother burn. That you, were a traitor. Sleeping with the same man who helped kill her. I was raised to hate all of you and trust me when I say I am still going to get back at Kael. I don’t know why, I don’t know how, but I don’t like the idea of knowing that my mother was inside that building to save Damon and Evelyn while she burned alive.”

Sienna’s lips parted slightly, her expression unreadable. She opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but I raised my hand, stopping her.

“But I’ve seen enough now to know I wasn’t told the whole truth. I’ve seen the pain in Lysandra. I’ve seen Giovanni’s cruelty. And now I’m not sure I know what side I’m on anymore. But what I do know…” I paused “… is that something terrible is coming. And you’re the only person in this building who might believe me. If I had spoken to Damon, he would have doubted me. He would have kicked me out. Before even speaking, and I doubt that anyone else would be willing to listen to me. And no matter how furious I am at all of them, I know when it is time for me to back out.”

She said nothing.

I lowered my voice. “Giovanni wants war. But he doesn’t want to start it with claws and fire. He wants to break it from the inside. And it starts with you. With Damon. With Isla. With all of us. He’s going to stop at nothing until he gets whatever power he believes he has right to claim.”

Her fists tightened.

“I’m not asking you to trust me,” I said. “But maybe… just maybe… you shouldn’t ignore what I’m trying to say.” For a moment, neither of us moved.

“I care less about you or Lysandra.”

“I would not expect you to care about any of us. But if you see her, then I believe that if you have a speck of humanity in you, you might change your mind.” I said, taking a breath.

“I don’t know why I’m choosing to believe you or to speak to you at this very moment. But if you lie again,” she said, her voice deathly calm. But I knew this. If she was speaking this way, then maybe the two of us would be able to have a deal. At least I knew that the man who started all of this game would come to an end. “I’ll be the one to end it. Not Damon. Not Kael. Me.”

“I believe you.”

She turned to leave, her steps slower now. She looked at me over her shoulder, and it was when she spoke that I realized that I just had a chance. One chance, but I was not going to lose it. Not when it’s meant ending something that started in a way that I did not like.

“Before you leave, we’re going to be speaking to Damon. Mind you, I do not want you around my mate, but if I’m going to do anything, if I’m going to take any decisions like this one, then he is going to be approving of them. Maybe, just maybe, then we would be able to consider ourselves as allies against the same enemy.”