Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 589: Under Attack

If you thought having blue balls was bad, then try having the fading throes of your mating fever interrupted. It was like being starved while the food sat right in front of you—close enough to touch, yet untouchable. The frustration was maddening, leaving Violet in a sore, seething mood.

But even the relentless ache of the mating fever couldn’t hold a candle to the cold, jarring shock of seeing your evil mother-in-law teetering on death’s door.

In that instant, Violet’s arousal didn’t just fade, it was snuffed out like a candle.

Zara Storm lay motionless on the hospital bed, looking nothing like the evil mother-in-law Violet knew. Her face was a mottled canvas of purple and blue, as though someone had punched the daylight out of her. Angry red bruises circled her neck, stark evidence that someone had tried to strangle the life out of her.

The beep-beep of the machines monitoring her vitals filled the room, but it was the sheer number of wires and tubes attached to her body that made the sight even more unsettling. Zara’s usually proud presence was gone, replaced by a pale, fragile figure teetering between life and death.

Violet’s eyes quickly shifted to Alaric. His expression was full of shock and disbelief. Sure, he’d wanted to kill his mother with his own hands more than once, but this sudden, brutal attack was jarring, even to him.

"What happened?" Alaric asked numbly, his voice hoarse, as if he still couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

Alaric’s gaze slid to Ace, suspicion in his blue eyes. It wouldn’t surprise him if his brother also wanted revenge on their mother after everything she had done.

Ace caught the look and immediately scowled, his brow furrowing in offense when he decoded what that accusing stare meant.

Alpha Caspian noticed the tension between his sons and intervened before it escalated. "Your mother was attacked." he announced, his tone heavy with restrained fury.

Alaric froze, his tone sharpening instantly. "Attacked? By who?"

If members of the pack started believing they could punish the Luna and walk free, then anarchy was just around the corner. Today it was his mother—tomorrow, it could be him, Ace, or his father or

right away, Alaric pressed, his tone cutting through the tense silence. "Who.

the silence. "Your

Alaric was almost certain

our mother, Alaric. Or, like I believe, he

sinking like

Finn even

grown so used to isolating himself and keeping Finn at arm’s length for so long that it was almost easy to forget he even had

come back to

ice water, numbing his veins and choking the breath

His most trusted wolf.

His second-in-command.

guard his back

Perhaps his beta had been

been around when it

every last excuse

returned last night, almost at the same time I arrived. When I interrogated him for his negligence, all he gave me were flimsy excuses. I told him his role as your beta would

he would retaliate in the worst way possible. He used wolfsbane gas on the guards

kill her," Caspian continued, his voice bitter. "But your mother... she’s a strong woman. In times like this, I suppose her resilience finally pays off." Though his tone carried