The Beta's Confession

“What drove you to this?” Kaelen’s voice was a ruined, ragged thing, struggling to maintain any semblance of structure. He stared down at the man pinned against the dirt. “Why sell out your own blood? What could Valera possibly have done to earn this level of treason, Torin? To be hunted like an enemy by someone she lived alongside?”

Torin remained locked against the soil, his knuckles blanched w