Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

Chapter 347

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"She's being detained for 48 hours while I gather evidence," I admitted. "Without proof of her crimes, I can't-"

Evelyn's face contorted with rage. With surprising strength for someone so frail, she grabbed the basket of venison and hurled it

at me.

"Forty-eight hours?" she shouted, her voice cracking with fury. "After what she did to my granddaughter? To me? To Olivia?"

Chunks of raw meat struck my chest and face, but I remained kneeling, accepting her anger as deserved penance.

"You're still protecting her," Evelyn accused, tears streaming down her wrinkled cheeks. "Even now, knowing what she is, you

can't bring yourself to punish her properly."

I didn't defend myself. There was nothing I could say that would justify my actions.

James's words echoed in my mind: only vengeance and justice for Lily could ever begin to redeem me in their eyes.

After Evelyn's strength was spent, I quietly rose to my feet. My gaze lingered on Olivia, who stood in the doorway watching the

scene unfold.

Her face was a mask of indifference, but I could see the pain beneath. My wolf whined with genuine sorrow at the mate bond

damaged perhaps beyond repair.

So many what-ifs. So many lost possibilities.

Without another word, I turned and left, my shoulders heavy with the weight of my failures.

Olivia, resolute, turned her attention to her mother, refusing to acknowledge me again.

(Victoria's POV)

Detention Center felt

imprisonment here haunted me at every turn. The stench of unwashed bodies,

the constant threat of violence-it was

to keep a low profile, my wolf constantly submissive to avoid drawing

burly she-wolf with a

other inmates laughed cruelly, their wolves

made my wolf cower deeper

and mighty

cleaning up after them, performing the most degrading tasks imaginable. At night, they made me sleep near the filthy detention bucket, its stench making me

contact Ethan through our

he

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from his end was

I counted the seconds, clinging to the

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sunlight, my once- perfect appearance now a disheveled mess. My designer clothes were

of fear, humiliation, and the detention center's filth. I needed fresh

immediately.

Moon Mall was my only option. I hailed a taxi, not recognizing the driver until it was

same driver I had previously insulted-smiled coldly at me in

"If it isn't Ms. Frost. Fallen on hard times, have

shopping ahead. But as we pulled up to the mall entrance, Martin rolled down his

here! That vicious

dawned on

inflamed by the recent scandals circulating through territory gossip channels, began

around the taxi.

be Little Orange!" "She

the taxi, someone hurled an egg that splattered against my shoulder.

waste over my head.

concealed amusement. They knew of my fall from grace and were content to let the crowd vent their anger

Within minutes, videos

networks.