Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 200: Bring A Queen Down

"I’m all for letting people make their own choices, but...." She trailed off, her tone suddenly guarded, "I’m afraid I cannot let you go, Ivy. You know my secret, and that of the princess,"

Ivy bristled. "But you told me I wouldn’t be able to spill your secret."

"Yes, the spell is binding," Lila admitted, her eyes sharp with caution, "but you humans are tricky creatures. You might find a loophole, and I’m not taking that chances. You have to stay where I can see you."

Ivy let out a dry, humorless laugh. "So, I’m your prisoner now?"

Before Lila could answer, Daisy spoke up. "You’re no prisoner, Ivy. You swore to do this together."

"I swore to go to the same house, not this," Ivy snapped.

"This is a house," Lila pointed out, gesturing at the ramshackle walls. "House of the Rogues. They may never accept us, but we can start our own pack right here."

Ivy stared at her, dumbfounded for a moment. Then she burst out. "You all have lost your damn minds. It’s not enough that you’ve been reduced to—"

"We," Violet interrupted abruptly, correcting her sternly. "We have been reduced."

Ivy glared at her. "Excuse me?"

"You’re part of this just like the rest of us, Ivy. Refusing to admit it won’t change the fact that we are all social pariahs now."

start some sort of rebellion?" Ivy scoffed,

flashing with fury.

war you’ve now dragged us into," Ivy

be a part of," Daisy interjected, her voice cutting through the tension. "Don’t dump everything on Violet. This is about you too. The plan was to pick a house, sure, but she made a last-minute decision and even begged you to leave. But you stayed, Ivy. Why? Because you trusted her. So trouble her

just like that, Ivy’s mouth

and roses? Elsie has hated everything about Violet from the start. That includes us

the reality of Daisy’s words settled over her. Both Elsie and Violet were bitches in their own right, but the only difference between them was that Violet had a heart, unlike Elsie, the cold-blooded she-wolf. And if hurting those close to Violet was

stepped closer, placing both hands on Ivy’s shoulders, forcing her

reminded her. "It might seem like the worst right now, but at least we’re together. We

ranking. The Purple Storm has been cleared. Her fever is over. She has

fate, fished out her phone. The moment she

Even Ivy, Daisy, and Lila’s rankings were higher than hers, even though they had all been grouped at the very bottom, with her own name standing

growled

given her leverage. It had let her challenge Elsie Lancaster. It had let her date

She had

because how

bonfire party. Just yesterday, she had shot up to two

exactly the same. They had pushed her off the ranking yet did not unfollow her? That

her notifications blazed with relentless pings that Violet realized she was not

upon thousands of notifications poured in

taken of her and Alaric together, with her laughing at something he had said, while bathed in