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!"

understand what it feels like to be trapped with the thing you fear

picked up one of the snakes. Its body writhed in my

firmly.

I threw

scream was primal, ripping from her throat as the snake landed on her shoulder. With her hands tied. behind her back, she could only writhe and thrash, trying to dislodge

I remembered the torment from the previous night, convinced Victoria

my voice hardening. "You put me in that basement.

my gloves. "Please!" Victoria sobbed,

at her feet, causing her to kick wildly in panic. "No amount of apologies can undo what you've

snake began to slither up her leg. Her face

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

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

"Close the door. Leave her

door began to swing shut, Victoria's pleas growing more frantic with each passing

screamed. "Don't

cold satisfaction. The woman who had tormented me for years was finally experiencing

about to close

OPEN THIS DOOR

at the end of the hallway, his face contorted with rage. His amber

y as he

rescuer, momentarily forgot her fear. She glared

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

me! There are

met her gaze steadily, then

with finality,

of his anger. His eyes burned into mine