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“Are you serious right now?” I snapped. “She brought this on herself.”
I reached for the door handle, ready to get out.
Click.
Orion slammed the lock shut. His eyes were red–rimmed, burning into me.
“She lost her pup. Her mate’s gone. Her whole world fell apart–and you still think you’re the
victim?”
“Oh, give me a break,” I laughed bitterly.
“Isn’t this what you’ve always wanted? Now there’s nothing stopping you from being together.”
That was it. He exploded.
He threw his door open and stormed around the car, yanked mine wide, and dragged me out by the
arm.
“You are going to apologize,” he growled, his grip like iron,
I tried to fight back, but I was just an Omega and he was an Alpha, furious and unhinged.
I couldn’t stop him.
He hauled me across the driveway, shoved open the front door of the house we used to share, and
threw me into the bedroom.
Melody was curled up on a fur rug, pale and fragile–looking.
But the second she saw me, something inside her snapped. She shot to her feet and slapped me
across the face.
“You bitch! You killed my baby! I’ll make you pay!”
She went to strike again, but Orion stepped in.
“That’s enough. You’re still healing.” He steadied her, then turned back to me. His voice dropped, cold and sharp.
“Get on your knees and say it like you mean it. That’s the least you owe her.”
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“Screw you.” I spat the words, blood seeping from the corner of my mouth.
And then–pain.
Sharp, sudden, blinding.
He’d kicked the back of my knees, hard.
I crumpled to the ground, my knees slamming into the floor. The impact knocked the breath from my lungs.
“You’re here now,” he said, forcing my shoulder down like he wanted to bury me in the floor. “You don’t get to walk away.”
Melody crouched beside me, her lips curling into a twisted smile.
Her fingernails hovered near my cheek as she hissed, “How does it feel? Knowing you killed an innocent pup. Feel good, you monster?”
I looked her dead in the eye and said, clear and cold,
“Yeah. I wanted that pup gone. I wanted both of you to burn in hell.”
Her face contorted in rage.
“I’ll kill you!” she screamed.
And before I could react, she pulled out a silver dagger–one of those used in the wild for skinning prey. Its blade caught the light, gleaming cold and deadly.
She lunged.
“NO!” Orion dove in, shoving her aside.
But it was too late.
The blade caught my side, slicing deep.
Pain tore through me like fire, hot and fast.
Silver burned.
Every nerve screamed.
I barely registered the way he caught me, the panic in his eyes as blood soaked through his shirt.
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The world tilted. My vision blurred.
Everything went dark.
When I opened my eyes again, I was in the recovery wing of the pack wellness center.
Flat on my back, hooked up to monitors, bandaged from waist to ribs.
Orion was slumped beside the bed, dark circles bruising his eyes. He looked like he hadn’t slept in
days.
The moment he saw me stir, he jolted upright.
“You’re awake!” he breathed, eyes wide. He reached for me-
I grabbed the ceramic cup from the nightstand–full of warm wolfmilk he’d brought “to help replenish blood“–
And smashed it against his face.
The cup shattered on impact.
A sharp line of blood bloomed across his forehead and trickled down the side of his nose.
He froze.
I didn’t blink.
“Get. Out.”
My voice was shredded, barely audible. The pain in my side flared, blood seeping into the bandages.
His face went ghost–white.
He stumbled to his feet and bolted out the door, shouting for the medic.
He came every day after that.
Brought fresh kills. Healing herbs. Even moonberry preserves–my favorite.
I didn’t touch a single thing.
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Let it rot.
Starving felt better than accepting anything from him–but my body didn’t care.
When I couldn’t stand it anymore, I asked the nurse to find me a caretaker. Someone discreet.
Someone who wouldn’t call my parents.
Because if my father saw me like this, he wouldn’t bother talking.
He’d rip Orion apart.
In the meantime, I contacted the pack’s best bond–litigation attorney and submitted the termination paperwork–along with every scrap of evidence showing Melody’s attack.
The wound in my side still throbbed.
The scar would be permanent. Silver always left a mark.
But I didn’t care.
That scar would serve as a reminder:
Never again.
Not another ounce of love for an Alpha who didn’t deserve it.
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