Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 384: About Her Blood

"You did what?!" Adele shot to her feet, her eyes blazing with betrayal.

"Oh no," Roman muttered, already bracing himself. "This is about to get ugly."

"I had no choice," Asher said firmly, though guilt flashed in his eyes.

"Classic dick move to dodge responsibility," Alaric commented from where he stood, arms crossed.

Asher's head snapped toward him, eyes filled with anger. "Adele was team Elijah, and she found out something huge about Violet's blood. What did you expect me to do? Let her run straight to him?"

"Maybe you could have started by trusting us," Roman growled, jaw tight. "We could've figured something out together."

Asher scoffed. "Last I checked, you hated Violet's guts. And Alaric?" He turned to the other Alpha. "You and I weren't even close. So forgive me if I didn't feel like trusting either of you with her

"And that justifies invading my mind?" Adele's voice rose with fury. "You didn't even give me a choice, Asher! You stole that from me!"

"I know," he said quietly, remorse settling into his voice. "I know I had no right. But if I hadn't done it, you would've gone to Elijah. You're loyal to him, and back then, you didn't know Violet like we do now. He would've sent Patrick after her in a heartbeat."

His voice dropped, and for once, there was only sincerity. "You've seen what they do to people like us. What they did to us. Violet would've been taken. Dissected. Or worse. I couldn't let that happen. So I made the call. I don't regret protecting her, but I regret what I did to you."

fell in

job. Her loyalty had always been with Elijah, until Violet entered the picture and she'd seen what the girl meant to the boys. What she meant to Asher, especially. The girl had turned this monster into a less

to speak through the pain. "What was the memory?

the way things had escalated,

known. For years, Adele had kept them alive even when

something terrifying in Violet's blood, and finally,how he had taken the memory from Adele to protect Violet. By the time he finished, the room had fallen

blinked slowly, clearly rattled. "I… I don't understand," he said. "Violet's blood is supposed

with disbelief. "Is that what happened to you?" He swallowed hard. "Did Violet try to kill

night confirmed it. I knew the risk. I'd seen the test in the lab. But when nothing happened afterwards, I thought maybe… maybe it was a mistake. Or a

at them, eyes darkened with the

eyes glow, and the next second, it felt like I was dying from the inside out. That's all

Everyone was shell-shocked.

get this straight, Violet's blood does kill us?

if her blood isn't some toxic acid that dissolves ours on contact? What if what Asher saw in the lab was just a visual representation of her powers react to us

"You mean like how she withstood your lightning, Alaric? Everyone thought she

since Asher has mental abilities—" Alaric

melted his brain from the inside out," Roman finished.

Roman," Asher muttered with a roll of

"Still… I know Violet. She would never hurt me