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)

hours in Shadowfall Detention Center

me at every turn. The stench of unwashed

threat of violence-it was all sickeningly

low profile, my wolf constantly submissive

with a jagged scar across her

laughed cruelly, their

my wolf

mighty now, are

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

through our pack bonds, sending frantic

But he had blocked me

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his end

counted the seconds, clinging to the knowledge that

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sunlight, my once- perfect appearance now a disheveled

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

immediately.

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

insulted-smiled coldly at me in the

he drawled. "If it isn't Ms. Frost. Fallen on

as we

the crowd. "Look who's here! That vicious

Eyes narrowed. Recognition dawned

inflamed by the recent scandals circulating through

around the taxi.

to be Little

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

over my head. The foul liquid soaked

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

angle. Within minutes, videos were

networks.