I told Axton my truth. Well, most of it. I told him the things that I had struggled so hard to tell Queen Lenny. It felt.. easy telling Axton.
I don't know if it was because of the intimate acts we had just done, or if it's because we're mates. Maybe a little bit of both. Regardless, I told him.
I've never felt so.. ashamed, but relieved to say what happened to me out loud. I know that Axton said he would never look at me differently, but.. Does he now that he knows?
"It's pathetic that I was willing to just live my life that way," I said.
That's why I always feel ashamed. I barely even put up a fight the first time Gildor touched me. After that , I just took it. How pathetic could I have been?
"No," Axton stated. "It's not pathetic, Nadja, it was survival. They had brainwashed you in
