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 like

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

threat of violence-it was all

low profile, my wolf constantly submissive to avoid drawing attention. But

a jagged scar across her face.

laughed cruelly, their

wolf cower deeper

mighty

to serve them-fetching their food, cleaning up after them, performing the most degrading tasks imaginable. At night, they

desperately tried to contact Ethan through our

help. But he

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his end was

I counted the seconds, clinging to the knowledge that this ordeal

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perfect appearance now a disheveled mess. My designer clothes were

scent-a mixture of fear, humiliation, and

immediately.

only option. I hailed a taxi, not recognizing the

insulted-smiled coldly at me in the rearview

well," he drawled. "If it isn't Ms. Frost.

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

crowd. "Look who's here! That vicious Victoria Frost who's been all over the

dawned on faces throughout the

by the recent scandals circulating through territory gossip channels, began

around the taxi.

be Little Orange!" "She killed the Alpha's daughter!" another

hurled an egg that splattered against my shoulder. Then came more-food, garbage, insults raining down on

worker I'd once snubbed, dumped an entire bucket of cleaning waste over my head. The foul liquid soaked through my clothes, drawing howls of

of my fall from

Within minutes,

networks.