Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

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"Wouldn't I?" I asked softly. "After what you did to me? After what you did to my daughter?"

Victoria's composure shattered completely. "If you do this, Ethan will kill you!"

I approached the cage, unfazed by her threats. "Let him try."

With deliberate slowness, I removed the cover from the cage, revealing the snakes inside. Three vipers coiled

within, their scales gleaming in the dim light.

I stared at them impassively. Once, I would have been terrified of these creatures. But my time in the

orphanage had cured me of that particular phobia.

Victoria screamed, the sound bouncing off the stone walls. She pressed herself harder against the wall, as if

trying to melt into it.

"Not afraid, are you?" I taunted, reaching for a pair of thick gloves that lay beside

the cage.

"Please," Victoria begged, her voice breaking. "Please, Olivia. I'll keep silent about this. I promise!"

I ignored her pleas, pulling on the gloves with methodical precision. "You know, Victoria, I spent hours in that basement last night. Hours in the dark, surrounded by rats, my worst fear."

Victoria's eyes darted frantically between me and the cage. "I'll give you money. Anything you want!"

money," I said coldly. "I want you to understand what it feels like to be trapped with the thing you fear

into the cage and calmly picked up one of the snakes. Its body writhed in my grasp,

firmly.

threw it at

With her hands tied. behind her

the torment

my voice hardening. "You put me in that

my

"No amount of apologies can undo what you've done," I said. "To me. To Lily."

her leg. Her face was contorted in terror, her eyes wild

dispassionately as she thrashed against her bonds, desperate to escape the creatures that now

snake joined its companions, landing directly in Victoria's lap. Her screams reached a new pitch,

bodyguards. "Close the door. Leave her with her new

shut, Victoria's pleas growing more

screamed. "Don't leave

gap, feeling nothing but cold satisfaction. The woman who had tormented me for years was finally

to close completely, a powerful voice echoed

THIS

contorted with rage. His amber eyes blazed with fury strode toward

y as he

seeing her rescuer, momentarily forgot her fear. She glared at

in the door, mouthing

me! There

steadily, then signaled to the bodyguards.

shut with finality, cutting

his anger.