Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 282: Villains And Second Chances

Violet expected a thousand questions from Jeremiah, but he didn’t utter a word. Not until he brought her safely back to the Rogue house. Then, like a soldier who had completed his mission perfectly, he simply turned and left with style.

However, Violet barely stepped into the shack before her roommates descended on her like hounds.

"Where have you been?! Do you know how worried I’ve been? I almost thought something had happened and I might have failed in protecting the princess!" Lila peppered her with questions, rapid-fire.

Then her gaze dragged down the length of Violet’s body and locked on the oversize shirt she wore. Without a seer to tell her, she knew instantly that it was Asher’s shirt. Violet might as well have walked in with a neon sign flashing "Slept with the enemy."

Ivy added sternly before Lila could explode, "You have a lot of explaining to do, young lady."

Violet didn’t flinch under their scrutiny. Instead, she calmly smoothed the hem of the shirt and asked, "I’ll explain later. Where’s Alaric?"

Lila’s mouth pressed into a thin line. "He left."

"Shit!" Violet cursed, dragging a hand through her tangled hair. She had hoped to catch him before he stormed off, to explain, or at least ease whatever chaotic assumptions were brewing in his head.

"That’s not all," Lila said.

Violet turned to her, brow arching. "What do you mean, that’s not all?"

And moments later, Violet got her answer.

She stood frozen outside her bedroom door, her jaw slightly unhinged, and her eyes sweeping across the wreckage before her.

whirling toward Lila with a look that

and the bed looked like it had survived a war and lost while dust still hung in the air like smoke from

said dryly, "the curse was stronger

"Stronger than—Lila, that

leaning in the doorway rolled her eyes. "Injure him, maybe. But kill a werewolf? Please. You

course she knew that. But seeing this ruin and knowing Alaric had been in the middle of it sent a fresh stab of

there a way to reduce

"Too late. He absorbed the whole thing. It’s following him now like a shadow.

eyes, Lila added quickly, "But don’t worry. The curse wasn’t

of her room and she could already tell Alaric Storm was in for hell today. And damn it,

that this drama’s over..." Daisy drawled, "why don’t you tell us where the hell

We were this close to thinking something horrible happened. Like maybe Elsie finally snapped and kidnapped you to murder you in secret while

like that happened but you might want to sit down for

living room with anticipation.

started slowly. "And ended up at the

manipulative bastard compelled you again, didn’t he?! I thought he promised not to get into

slicing

fuming but respecting Violet enough to sit back

just the same way she had seen in the memories. And finally finished

Violet finished,

messed up. I always knew something had to have happened to make Asher the way he is. But what you just told us? Henry deserves to rot in the

her hands clenching into fist. "And he will.