Fate's Dark Side Chapter 336

"Amanda," I said, and she left the window and approached me. She looked like she had aged a bit from the last time I saw her at the Arena.

"Lady Tamia," she said and bowed her head to show her respect.

"Why?" was all I could ask her.

We stood there for a few seconds, and she looked at me. I knew she was thinking of how best to start. I was all ears.

She wiped away her tears.

"I had no choice. My father already had set everything in motion. I did not know until they took you to the north. That was when he became forceful. He had set everything in motion." she said, and I sighed.

"Before then?" I asked her knowing she had visited her father too often for comfort before the north attacked. I thought she went to complain to her father about her living condition, but now I know better.

"When he asked me to lie that Leo accepted me, I went along with it because only a fool would defy my father. Everyone that defies him ends up dead," she said, and she did not need to elaborate on this. My parents paid the price for their defiance. Leo's father, their Alpha then, could not protect them.

"He would invite me, and during my visits, he would ask me what was happening in our house, pretending he cared about my well-being. I did not think much of it, so I talked.

I said everything exactly how it was, and he would tell me to hang in there and that it would soon improve. It sounded generic and rehearsed, but I would excuse it since I knew he did not know how to show affection.

When you gave yourself up, and they took you away, everything changed. He began to push me to marry Leo, and he started asking me private questions about Leo's moves and what Leo was up to if he was going to avenge the attack and so on. I thought that was a bit too nosey, so I pushed back. He told me I was dispensable; if I did not do what he wanted, he would just get me out of the way and do what he liked. Knowing his brutality, I knew he could kill Leo and me, so I agreed to feed him information. After that decision, I did not know what to do, but I knew it would buy us time.

You need to understand that I was grabbing on straws. Leo hated me, so I dared not confide in him, and you were no longer with us. I was alone. Everyone looked up to me as the head Luna of the east, so I had to keep going. I performed these luna duties to the best of my abilities while I fed my father lies to satiate him.

It was getting tedious, especially when I feared my information would not check out.

One day I decided I would run away. Leo didn't love me, and he didn't want me around him, and I knew my father would soon find out that I had been lying to him. Leo had the power to push back; he had Max and Kyle, but I had no one, and I doubted he would protect me from my father since he blamed me for losing you.

Leo saw me moving out of my room with my bags the day I wanted to leave. I could not tell him the real reason, so I made it seem like it was a matter of the heart, hopeful that he would let me leave, but he pleaded with me to stay, and I was too in love to walk away.

I knew he needed help and could not be left alone, so I chose to risk it and stay. Every day I woke up fearing my father would find out I had been lying.

When Leo decided to leave for the games, I decided to visit my father's house and steal some information that I knew might keep me safe. The flash drive is currently in my bag at the hotel. It has the list of people he planned his mutiny with and how they funded themselves. Every single one of them. I made sure I took the information before joining Leo in the north," She said, and I paused.