Cynthia?" Killian

ture appeared for the first tim

hia! I order yo

essing down on me, trying to forc

o their knees under the crushing

emained

buckle now brushed over me like

heart had a

hreaten someone who n

ridiculous clown wig, tossing it

away the grotesque red paint f

e past ten years of my youth, and

ed you, if you remembered what we once had, you would at least save

long his neck as he lunged forward, as if he could physically silenc

. Do you know why I insis

im slowly. My wolf

ace as I laughed, "you used that love to make me drink poison alcohol, to turn me into a clown, to make me kneel like an

neck stood out sharply. "Cynthia, don't push me! I hid your moth

gly earn three months of morgue fees for my own mother? Atonement me

harply tow

g, clutching Killian's sleeve in panic.

re ri

d Cynthia is dead. She died in that bottle o

a deep

rfaced in Killian's eyes. He reached out in panic, trying to gr

Buy my mother

widened the dist

nd gathered every ounce o

Cynthia Hartwell, reject you, Killian Ashford, as my Alpha and mate! For the monstrous lie

reak of crimson lightning tore acros

on Goddess be

ishment de

ut a scream o

inked our souls was

of blood and collapse

trying to hold himself toget

s he reached for me. The pride and coldness in his eyes were gone. Only

cended into co

ables and chairs cr

She rejected

hing up blood! C

shrieked at the guards, "Grab her! Ge

n from every direction, sealing

e at Killian kneel

gony like an ab

o satisf

ye, Ki

d smashed it into the floor-

e shattered opening

ds explode

he dark, rain-

voice ripped through

was too

ing away the clown paint on my skin a

n and ran barefoot a

th every step. I knew I wo

had to

ave my o

d farther away from the nigh

ll harder a

endless darkness of

. I left the man I had loved f