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!"

don't want your money," I said coldly. "I want you to understand what it feels like to be trapped

one of the snakes. Its body writhed in

firmly.

I threw it at

from her throat as the snake landed on her shoulder. With her

the torment from the previous night, convinced Victoria was

me," I said, my voice hardening. "You put me in that basement. You knew my

another snake, its scales smooth against the leather of my gloves. "Please!" Victoria

the second snake. It landed at her feet, causing her to kick wildly in panic. "No

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

she thrashed against her bonds, desperate to escape the

companions, landing directly in Victoria's lap. Her screams reached a

signaling to the bodyguards. "Close the door. Leave her

door began to swing shut, Victoria's

screamed. "Don't

The woman who had tormented me for years was finally experiencing a fraction of the

the door was about to close

THIS DOOR

the hallway, his face contorted

y as he

her rescuer, momentarily forgot her fear.

door, mouthing "You're dead" before crying out to

me! There

her gaze steadily, then signaled to

slammed shut with

face Ethan, unafraid of his anger. His eyes burned into