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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

stone. "You have no proof of

know what's in front of my eyes," I retorted. That woman has been systematically destroying

(Ethan's POV)

I struggled to maintain my composure

tirade against

would never harm Emma," I insisted, clinging to this certainty. "She's

countered, her eyes flashing with righteous

the basement in Matriarch Evelyn's Villa, Victoria's enhanced hearing captured every word of our argument. I could almost feel her panic rising as she realized I wasn't immediately coming to her

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

paralyzing fear of snakes, sent a chill

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you're upset about what happened to Olivia. But

be spared the very punishment you inflicted on Olivia? Or does your sense of justice only apply

locked Olivia in that basement

if I had been

grew more desperate. The snakes!

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

moving toward the

(Matriarch Evelyn's POV)

blocked Ethan's path with surprising agility for my age, my cane raised like a barrier between

door.

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