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Chapter 55: The Matriarch's Justice

(Matriarch Evelyn's POV)

Ethan looked up, surprise flickering across his features before he composed himself.

"Grandmother," he greeted, rising. "I wasn't expecting you."

"Clearly." I replied coldly. "If you were, perhaps you would have prepared a better explanation for your actions."

Confusion crossed his face. "My actions?"

"Don't play innocent with me, boy,” I snapped, advancing into the room. “I found Olivia in that basement. I saw what you did to her."

His jaw tightened. "That was pack discipline. She endangered Emma-

"She did nothing of the sort!" My voice cracked like thunder in the confined space. Tve investigated the matter thoroughly. Olivia was at Canis Enterprises that entire day, surrounded by witnesses."

Ethan stared at me, momentarily speechless. "That's impossible. The contact number-"

"Was hacked," I finished for him. "A fact that could have been discovered with even the most basic investigation. But you were too eager to believe the worst of your mate, weren't you?"

His amber eyes-so like my own-narrowed defensively. "Victoria wouldn't lie about something like this."

closer. "Victoria Frost orchestrated that entire incident herself. She manipulated you, just as she's been manipulating

into stone. "You

I retorted. That woman has been systematically destroying your family

(Ethan's POV)

blows. I

tirade against

never harm Emma," I insisted,

her child as a pawn, Grandmother countered, her eyes flashing with righteous anger. *Just

Villa, Victoria's enhanced hearing captured every word of our argument. I could

out!" Victoria screamed, her voice muffled by the thick

location, knowing Victoria's paralyzing fear of snakes, sent a chill through me. This wasn't

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with restraint, "I understand you're upset about what happened to Olivia.

you inflicted on Olivia? Or does your sense of justice

Olivia in that basement without a second

if I

desperate. The snakes! Please!

at me. I needed to get to her, to rescue her from

demanded, moving toward the door.

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for my age, my cane

door.

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