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, the oppressive weight in the air was pal

oing on, a sharp, authoritative vo

ne

ason's grandmother, her fac

than I could count. It had become a humiliating reflex. The mo

y skin, the icy clarity from my

voice terrifyingly calm

morning, you threw a tantrum and shattered Elias's Moonstone Amulet! You com

asking the deadness in my eyes.

"I thought if you simply apologized and showed genuine remorse, I m

eel there for a day and a night. Without my explicit

is face a perfect mask o

if to protect me. "Alia definitely didn't do it on purpose. Sinc

vering protection. Now, watching his performance, my stomach churned with nausea. He wasn'

what has it changed? If it weren't for you, I would have stripped her of her title l

was dragged to t

ernous sanctuary. Over the past three year

el beside me, wrap his warm coat around my shivering shoulders, and fee

think that

night. The heavy oak

hand reaching out to gently brush a stray lock of hair behi

willpower not to violently flinch. His touch, which used to ignit

g my eyes fixed on the stone a

rt of the tortured, loving husband, b

he guards stationed outside wouldn't deny me that basi

d Pack-a gilded cage where I wa

to the restroom, two hushed voices dr

okay to let Alia ta

wall, gesturing for the maid to stay back. She, too

s completely gone, replaced by a soothing, indulgent warmth. "She's used to taking the fall for these things. You don't

ent entir

, you are always the one I can rely on. Whenever someth

ad brother. "From now on, whenever something like this

ack, you are the

into a million pieces, was

e door open, to expose their sickening affa

gic slammed the b

needed his perfect meat shield to protect his precious Karin from the

the freezing hall. Cason came to check on me

f Alphas. My knees were bruised and bleeding, every step send

d out my phone and dialed the only person in t

up on the s

ll warmth and illusion. "I need a lawyer and the Pack'