Chapter 0007
Lucas flushed and looked around. It seemed that in all these years, he had learned something about decorum, even if it wasn’t a thing that I wanted him to learn. I supposed seeing me level his beta so easily earlier had given him some things to think about in terms of what he could and couldn’t get away with. Given what he’d already done, he was probably figuring out how best to play it safe. I hoped the anxiety about what I was planning ate him alive. He had to know that his empty threats and commands weren’t going to stop me from doing what I had to. He had to know that I wouldn’t be cowled by his betrayal. I may have loved him once, but I had never shown myself to be someone who would be taken advantage of and not get my revenge.
I was more of an alpha than he would ever be, and that made me strong, but being a scorned woman would make me vicious.
“Ah,” Theo said, reaching into his pocket. “Speaking of.”
Theo lifted my wrist and took my hand. I didn’t pay him much attention until I felt something slipping onto my finger. I looked over and froze as he slid a ring onto my where my wedding ring had once been.
hand
But it was a completely different ring. In place of the diamonds and gold, the band was white gold and paired with precious gems that sparkled like a rainbow on my finger. The main gem on the band was a soft rose–colored diamond. The name of the shade escaped me, but I could see the quality of the band clearly.
The stone had to be worth at least a few hundred million alone. I looked up at him, wondering what he was playing at.
He lifted my hand and kissed it with a mischievous smile.
“We should get it resized for you,” he murmured. “Or I might start to think you don’t like it, darling.”
Lucas choked on a sound. Then, he yelled loud enough that the whole party seemed to shriek to a halt.
“You fucked him, didn’t you?” Lucas yelled. “How could you sleep with my enemy? How could you betray me? Our pack?”
I whirled on him. Furious that he would even think to say something like that.
“You fucking–”
“Don’t go projecting your sins onto me!” I shrieked. The force of my power, my voice, shook the air. He stumbled back. “You betrayed me.” I glared at him, growling low in my chest. “You betrayed me. My love, my kindness– my pack. You’re my enemy and you only have yourself and your selfishness to thank for that.” I turned from him. “You made your
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choice and soon, you’ll have to live them. From that moment on, what I do, with whoever f do it with is no longer any of your concern.
He growled, his eyes flashed and the red light sparked in the air. “Come here,” he said. The sound of his voice was distorted, high and low and wrong, rattling through my mind, ripping through my consciousness. “Apologize on your knees!”
My stomach lurched. The ballroom faded away I was back home. Younger. Shorter. Weaker. My father stood over me, his eyes burning red. That same red light filled the air between us, wrapping around my throat, choking me. My heart was in my throat. The urge to run, to fight, to scream and rip and tear was overwhelming.
My stomach lurched. Pain shot through my whole body, and I couldn’t move. The scent of alcohol burned my nose. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t think, and I remembered.
Compulsion.
He was trying to use compulsion on me. Fury cam next, bubbling up the way it had then, screeching through me. I blinked away the memory.
The world swam in a red haze. Lucas was still glaring at me. I knew there was a chance that I would be sick for weeks the way I had been when my father tried to compel me, but unlike then, I was going to tear Lucas’s throat out.
Here. Now.
The snarl grew in my chest. I felt my teeth growing sharper. I’d kill him. I could already taste his blood on my teeth. I lunged forward aiming for his throat.
I could already taste his blood on my teeth.
“You know, you don’t have to listen to him, Violet.”
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