Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 391: Bonding Experience

"Whoa, wait!" Alaric shouted, throwing up his hands as Lila readied her sword for another attack.

Lila halted mid-lunge, the flames licking her blade fluttering in agitation while her eyes remained locked on them with violent suspicion.

Alaric asked cautiously. "What do you mean, ’what we’ve done to Violet?’ Why would you think we did something to her?"

Lila’s nostrils flared. "Then where is she?" She demanded, "Violet was supposed to meet me at the academy hours ago. Don’t play dumb! What—did you all kill her after you found out what she did to this asshole?!" She swung her sword toward Asher, lunging again.

"That’s enough!" Adele’s voice boomed across the space like thunder.

Lila halted, her gaze shifting to Adele and taking her in.

"The Cardinal Alphas did nothing to Violet," she said coldly. "You’d know that if you could calm your rage for five seconds and look around you!"

Lila’s hands tightened on the hilt of her blade, her expression still wild. "Then where is she? I warned her about hanging around you guys, but she asked me to trust you all... " her voice cracked as she pointed at the cardinal alphas, "... and the moment I do, she disappears?"

Asher told her with a heavy heart. "Violet and Griffin were taken last night by rogues. We found out early this morning and we’ve been tracking them since. Until you decided to show up swinging crazily at the people actually trying to rescue her."

His eyes darkened as he stepped closer to her. "You really think I would hurt her? After everything I’ve done to protect her? Everything I’ve sacrificed?" His jaw clenched. "To think you still believe that after all this time is sickening."

"Not when she’s a threat to what you desire most. To what you all have trained for your entire life," she sneered. "Love or loyalty, Asher. Which one would win in the end?"

That word stopped Asher , burrowing under his skin like a sting. But more than the accusation, it was the certainty in her voice that rattled him.

slowly. "What is your relationship to Violet, Lila? Is

ignored him,

saying anything to you creatures of lies and deceit." Then

are you

place she was taken. I’ll find

Asher snapped, stepping

me," she shot back, trying to

"I’ll figure them out eventually. But right now, we’re working together not just to find Violet, but Griffin too. You might have magic and a sword, but don’t pretend you know rogues better than

eyes burned into Asher’s with her hand still hovering over her sword. But slowly, and

voice was a grudging growl.

worn some pants, skidded up beside Lila with a grin

a thing for trying to kill us," he said, eyes

I have this massive, world-shaking instinct that this

him was enough to chill one to the

just grinned

cursed under his

Roman away. "Do you have a death wish or were you just born with

little from Column A, a little from Column

shook his head in

moved in silence as Asher

where she was taken," he said, gesturing to the

the dried