Chapter 17: The Choice

Emily

I sat in the cell next to Tristan, and I had listened to him tell me the truth, but I was now regretting it because it had brought up a painful memory for him. But I was appalled to find out what Baltazar had done to him and even worse, the death of his former girlfriend.

“She was found in a lake by a couple of fishermen,” he said. “Her body had been cut up and had several bite marks on her body.”

This was terrible!

“The police thought I had something to do with it,” he continued. “I would have gone to jail had my packmates not vouched for me.”

Somehow, I knew Tristan was not the type of guy who would be that brutal and I didn’t want to ask my next question, but I had to know.

“It was Baltazar, wasn’t it?” I asked. “He killed her.”

He looked at me seriously.

“Yes,” he replied. “But they didn’t have any evidence linking him to her murder. He denied ever doing such a thing.”