#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.”

begins to murmur and Amelia starts to turn red with embarrassment. Clearly, she hadn’t expected her act to

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,

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

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,

as my fiancé, my partner in life, my mate. I have cared for you, housed you, welcomed you to my pack, and provided for your every need. In return,

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

his voice dripping with molten rage,

as one. Never, never would they have expected Victor and Amelia, this shining pair, to

refuse your rights as my mate, my fiancé, my partner. I mark you as a Rogue

the breastbone. An ending, a closing of the circle, a separation of what was once

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

sob rips from Amelia’s throat, the loudest sound in the room. But Victor turns his eyes from her, away from this woman whom he

moment with two

takes slow, measured steps away from her and back into the vestibule before the Bridal Suite.

moments, knows that all eyes will be upon him as he

kneels down next to Evelyn, and his boys, who still cry

calm, as he runs a hand over Ian’s hair and

Ian says,

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,

she all right?” He asks

“Victor…I think…I 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

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