#Chapter 96 – Rejection

Victor turns, slowly, to face Amelia at the door.

“Evelyn,” his voice is soft; he doesn’t look at her as he speaks. “Are they okay?”

He hears a huff behind him. “No, Victor, obviously they’re not okay –“

“Evelyn,” it’s a bark this time, his voice thick with command. “Do they need medical attention.” He doesn’t take his eyes off of Amelia for a second.

Evelyn pauses, understanding now. After a moment of looking over the boys, she answers. “No…no, I think they’re okay.”

“Good.” That taken care of, he prowls forward to Amelia at the door.

“Victor,” she says, standing up straight, her own face angry and stern. “This is a misunderstanding –“

“Enough, Amelia!” He cuts her off and her mouth snaps shut. Still, the stubborn expression has yet to be stripped from her face. He realizes that she still thinks she’s going to win this fight, stand her ground and have things her way. Slowly, he shakes his head and turns to the crowd.

“I apologize.” His voice is a resonant growl that echoes throughout the room. “For the disruption to the wedding. I know that you all traveled far and delayed other plans to celebrate this day with Amelia and I.”

Amelia too turns to look out on the crowd, her face turning a bit smug.

“I apologize, further,” Victor continues, turning his fury on Amelia as he says it. He wants to see her face. “For continued disruption to this wedding, as it has been cancelled.”

The crowd gasps, and Amelia snaps her furious face to his. She opens her mouth to speak, but Victor interrupts.

“Moments before she walked down the aisle, Amelia took it upon herself to lock my two children – my sons and heirs – into a closet in the Bridal Suite.”

to turn red with embarrassment. Clearly, she hadn’t expected her act

is an assault on my family, on my pack, on my lineage, on my heritage,” he says, his voice rising with every item in the list. “All done, I assume, because this…woman,” he sneers as the says the

as her mouth falls open in protest. Any of her words are drowned out

red to an icy white. Her hands start to tremble as she anticipates what is coming next. Victor turns to her then, focusing his ferocious gaze on her alone. It could be just the two of them in the room now, for

you to my pack, and provided for your every need. In return, you have disrespected me, betrayed

sinks to her knees, shaking her head no, her hands drafting up to her mouth.

his voice dripping

never would they have expected Victor and Amelia, this shining pair, to end like

bond is between us,” Victor continues, viciously slicing the air between them with his hand. “I refuse your rights as my mate, my fiancé, my partner. I mark you

between them in that moment, inaudible but…felt, there, below the breastbone. An ending, a closing of the circle, a separation of what was

set eyes upon you again. To me, you are a dead thing. Worse,” Even those in the back of the room can hear him whisper over the

Victor turns his eyes from her, away from

his trust, his heart, to bear. He couldn’t marry someone so selfish that she couldn’t share the spotlight for one moment with two little boys, his children. Someone

steps away from her and back into the vestibule before the Bridal Suite. There is

eyes will be upon him as he leaves the vestibule. What

his boys, who still cry softly but seem to be

he says quietly, calm, as he runs a hand over Ian’s hair and wipes a tear from

okay,” Ian

soft. He takes a minute to glance around the room, again noticing the bridesmaid passed out on the floor. He notices that she is breathing, but she has passed out, her face is

right?”

think Amelia poisoned her,” she says, a little breathless and awed at the woman’s ruthlessness. “As a way to distract me, so she could lock the boys away. She planned all of this,

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