Everything Axel said struck the right places inside Fenris, cutting through all the defenses he had been holding firmly.
Of course he wouldn't have accepted this change so easily himself.
Axel was right in every possible way.
Fenris had been a hypocrite. He had burned with anger at his people for rejecting him because he had been given a male mate, but he had done the same thing to himself the moment he realized what Axel was to him.
He had despised his own reflection for it, had treated it like a flaw that needed to be erased.
How could he condemn them for mirroring the very hatred he carried inside?
The failures he kept mourning, his fall, his disgrace, his broken future, he had been forcing them to stay alive.
He had wrapped himself in them like chains and then cried about being bound. Axel was right about that too.
He had a mate now. All he needed to do was accept him and claim him, and he would be back on his feet.
