I can’t act scared or even shocked by Damian’s words. With what the brothers went through, they might have been the ones to die if things had gone differently. Also, I realize that what Damian did was also his way of protecting his brothers. How could he endure seeing his younger siblings hurt for so many years while holding his hatred in? Back when Alec beat me, I had no one to hold dear, no one to protect. But for them, things were different. Liam knows his older brothers shielded him from their father’s madness, yet he still couldn’t escape it.
“His Beta knew what we were planning, but he didn’t say a thing to our father. He had come to hate him, too, yet he had to obey. Our father even beat up his son once, to punish him. How could he not despise him? That’s when I understood I had
