Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 194: Death House

They forced them out of their bedroom without any care for their appearance. Luckily, Violet had chosen a pair of boy’s shorts and a singlet before bed, unlike her usual pants and shirts. With the cold weather, the others had opted for pajamas as well, though the thin fabric clung to their damp skin as the rain continued to pour.

The storm hadn’t relented since the night before. If anything, it pounded harder now, soaking them to the bone as they walked through the downpour. The sky crackled with lightning crashes, emitting silvery lights like unyielding stormy tears, while thunder boomed above like the distant growl of some sorrowful beast.

Violet instinctively knew this storm was Alaric’s doing. The thunder boy’s heart was broken, and it was her fault. The guilt weighed heavy in her chest, making it hard to breathe. Her vision blurred with tears mixed with rain, and her foot slipped on the wet ground.

"Watch where you step, bitch!" snarled one of the girls gripping her arm, jerking her upright.

Violet glared through the rain-soaked strands of hair clinging to her face.

"What are you staring at?" the girl snapped.

Violet’s lips curved into a wicked smile. "Why don’t you let go of my hands and find out?"

"Don’t fall for that," warned the girl on her other side, tightening her grip. "She just wants a fight. Heard ghetto bitches like her know how to fight dirty."

The first girl snorted with laughter. "Good for her. She’ll be doing a lot of dirty fighting from now on."

Violet’s smile vanished, her gut twisting at those words. She knew their fate from now on was going to be bad — she just didn’t know how worse it be.

The walk dragged on, each minute stretching longer as they trudged past all four houses. With it being Saturday morning, it was no surprise that all the students were out and about—and none of them missed the chance to capture the scene.

Although the cardinal alphas were not at the scene, they were probably watching this from their rooms. Even if they didn’t, enough pictures and videos had been taken by the students for them not to miss a thing.

they neared the woods

the woods like savages or something like that.

Elsie led them down an unfamiliar

grew colder. The distant rumble of thunder

with a flourish, she spread her arms wide as if unveiling a

here," she announced, her smile dripping with cruel

out by the pounding rain. She stared up in horror at the house before her, every inch of her body

that moment, illuminating the house in stark, eerie clarity. It was

cracked windows like nature’s attempt to swallow the place whole. Rainwater dripped from the sagging roof, which bowed under years of rot,

lab in the woods felt like a paradise compared to this. This? It looked like something torn straight

hell is this place?" Daisy whispered

way I’m going in there," Ivy added, hugging

peeling paint, now nothing

once been was now a distant memory, replaced by the murky greens and browns of rot and mildew. The front porch sagged dangerously, its wooden planks warped and splintered, as though one wrong step would

to the frame. One of the windows beside it had been cracked into a spiderweb of fractures, the jagged lines spreading out from a single, violent impact. Beyond the grimy glass, the interior was nothing but

Violet

"Welcome to your new home, Rogues. We call it ’The Shack’, though ’haunted death trap’ might be more

they thought was a funny joke. Except the situation was not funny to Violet

condemned," Lila whispered

rats will make excellent roommates. Oh—and watch out for the floorboards. Step