#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.”

starts to turn red with embarrassment. Clearly, she hadn’t expected her act to be thus discovered

the throng, who hush in order to listen. “This is an assault on my family, on my pack, on my lineage, on my heritage,” he says, his voice

rips his gaze from Amelia’s as her mouth falls open in protest. Any

an angry 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

my mate. I have cared for you, housed you, welcomed you to my pack, and provided for your every need. In return, you have disrespected me, betrayed me, and endangered the health and safety

head no, her hands drafting up to her mouth.

his voice dripping with molten

almost as one. Never, never would they have expected Victor and Amelia, this

as my mate, my fiancé, my partner. I mark you as a Rogue wolf, expel you from my pack, and let you fall upon whoevers hands will take up

but…felt, there, below the breastbone. An ending, a closing of the circle, a separation

takes one step forward to glower over her. “After this day, this moment, I never wish to 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 hush in the room, “it

the room. But Victor turns his eyes from her, away from this woman whom he had loved, with whom he

one moment with two little boys, his

takes slow, measured steps away from her and back into the vestibule before the Bridal Suite. There is no need to rush

of the next few moments, knows that all eyes will be

his boys, who still cry softly

he runs a hand over Ian’s hair and wipes a tear from

we’re okay,” Ian

voice still soft. He takes a minute to glance around the room, again noticing the bridesmaid

all 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

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