my ears like a
nic
d, horrified voices. The one who stripped women down and used them until there was nothing left. He didn't care
or ended up dead. Some threw themselves from his towe
raw and shrill. "You've never once acted like a
loser, his Alpha aura crashing down like a physical weight,
name that gives a worthless omega like you the cha
mouth. "Then you should hand that prize to
you - I'm not some pathetic Omega who just go
t least it's better than what happened to your mom. She
ill herself - she was tortured to death by the pain o
flew up and I slapped h
ng my hair. I sank my teeth into her arm. She screa
igging into my shoulders. "You still carry this
oping he'd wake up and see what he'd done to me. But the rules were clear: as long as I kept
s. Even if that marriage was hell
na, come back. I cleaned up. I bet
ocked him wit
" Celia scoffed. "We raised
housework since I was six. In high school, I wor
going,"
e was cold as iron. He held out his hand. Lia, moving like sh
for two years. Two whole years, witho
still stained with my old blood
't do this..." I wh
that whip cracking across my skinny body, of skin
a compulsion. Then, without a moment's hesitation, he brought the whip down hard a
our answer." He
r the pain to dull just enou
ll
another hell make? At least I wouldn
gave them a child, I was safe. I looked at their twisted faces and wishe
ve one co
ather narrow
nothing. No debt. No ties." My voice
l little-" His
tion." I didn't blink
he woul
me over there still branded with his mark-and Blood Moon found out Blue Ridge still had a grip on the mother of their future
sell me off like livestock. But he could no
o another Alpha's bed while
, straining to break loose. His chest heaved for a lon
out through his teeth. "I no longer
eep in my chest cracked open-not shattered, just lo
aited ahead of me
ll it could barely fit a bed, but after everything that ha
buzzed ag
up. "I knew it-useless coward. Lena, don't you dare answer him!
d wall. Her anger loosen
ked him. But... something worse happened
e'd just been punched. "That old b
ack needs a she-wolf to breed heirs. If I marry in, Blue Ridge gets land
ent of silence
Celia's fingerprints all over it. If it's such a gr
, haven't you?" I as
f dreamed of marrying. But that was before." She let out a slow breath. "Something happened last year. He's violent now. Brutal. He's not the same man. No woma
uietly. "But I don
sed m
layed to death in some ditch. And my father is an Alpha. The moment he lets me walk away, he
aus
be my end. In Blood M
tightened. "I'm coming to
t her off
oo. You're finally getting out from und
e went
, hurting, aching for me. But she
on't believe I'm going to die. I won't. As long as I live through this, I get real freedom. Enough m
uiet for a
. The Moon Goddess wouldn't turn h
inally. "If you can reach me, I'l
er I would,
wave of pain twisted through my chest-would I still be alive tomorrow? In weather like
nd, I fe
r, my stepmother, and Lily were already dress
look at a
got into the black car with the Bl
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