Chapter 815

Baxter:

With every step I took, I felt my heartbeat quicken.

Every little thing started hitting me all at once.

How was it possible that I had cheated on Madeline?

I mean, okay, if someone was being abused, of course I would have helped her.

But how could I have gotten romantically involved with her and betrayed Madeline like that?

And then there was what my wolf had said about Madeline keeping that woman locked up because she was jealous of her, or because Kaylee had tried to take me away from her.

That didn’t feel right to me.

Although Madeline had told Nina that she would kill her, that had come from pure love, not vengeance or hatred.

Madeline wasn’t like that.

As I thought about all of it, my wolf scoffed inside my head.

“And how would you know what she’s like? You don’t have your memories.”

The minute he said that, I clenched my jaw so hard that I heard my teeth grind against each other.

Then I stepped onto the last stair and saw her.

The woman sat in the corner, hugging her knees with her head lowered and her face buried between her arms.

“What? Have you come downstairs to see how much pain I’m in after you gave me wolfsbane?” the woman spoke up.

And that was the thing.

When I had first seen Madeline in the human world after waking up from the coma, my heart had started racing, goosebumps had risen all over my skin, and something inside me had come alive.

When I heard her voice, I had nearly lost my mind.

But now, standing in front of this woman, I felt nothing.

If anything, I felt some bottled-up rage.

“You were the one who said you’d give me mental abuse, right?” she said, her voice breaking. “Fine, go ahead. I deserve it. After all, your husband and I—”

She stopped talking, and my heart skipped a beat.

“I know you must have been furious when you found out that I ran away with your husband. But I lost a lot too. My life was destroyed after that one decision. My children— my children died. I can never become a mother again.”

As she said all of that, I suddenly realized that her story was matching what my wolf had told me.

Then she suddenly lifted her head, still crying, and the moment her eyes landed on me, I watched them widen.

I didn’t know what I was feeling, but when she said that she had run away with me, something felt very wrong.

I had run away with her, then her children had died, and so much had happened to her.

And after all of that, I had left her and gone back to my wife to try to win her heart again.

Had I really done all of that?

Was Madeline taking revenge on me?

At that moment, I couldn’t understand any of it.

“What–“

She let out a yelp.

“No, no, no. How is that possible? How are you here?” she screamed almost immediately.

I took a step back, and my foot nearly hit the stair behind me.

I just couldn’t stand there.

She looked so shocked, like she had seen a ghost, possibly because I was the man who had wronged her.

“No, no, no, no, nooooo. You can’t be-real-How are you alive,” she stammered.

I could tell her throat was drying up.

In a situation like that, after learning so much, I should have gone over to comfort her.

Instead, I suddenly turned around and started climbing the stairs.

As soon as I reached the top, I shut the door and ran a hand through my hair.

“Warrior, come here!” I yelled.

He arrived, looking at me before clearing his throat.

“I’m your guard, sir,” he corrected me.

“Whatever. Bring me a new lock. Lock this door up,” I told him.

A little while later, the new lock was in place, but standing there had become unbearable for me.

I headed straight to my bedroom.

I took off my shirt, slammed it onto the floor, and then started taking off my belt.

A wave of confusion had taken over me, and at that moment, I felt like I had only one solution.

I walked over to my dressing

and grabbed the sleeping met

poured all of them into my

The moment I did, an uneasy feeling hit me.

“Wait,

pills are not the sleeping

those

my wolf tried to stop me

But I was so out of it that before I knew it, I

Thad put all the pills into my and swallowed

W

“You idiot!” my wolf screamed before sleep immediately took over him.

I grabbed my phone and typed out a text.

Me: Madeline, we need to talk about Kaylee, and we need to do it before my wolf wakes up.

With that, I hit send.

It was no accident that I had grabbed the wolfsbane pills. It was deliberate.

I wanted to put my wolf to sleep. I had had enough of his games. I was tired of him.