#Chapter 189 – Unexpected Terror

I stare down at Victor at my feet and then, wild, uncomprehending, I look up into the room beyond him.

There, at the door –

An absolute nightmare come true. I blink, unbelieving – it can’t be possible –

But then the nightmare speaks, my own name on its lips.

“Evelyn,” Joyce says, smirking as he steps forward. “So gracious of you, to distract him while I took aim.”

I gasp, my mind still reeling, and then I fall to my knees, taking Victor’s face in my hands. He groans, his eyes pressed closed –

“Victor,” I murmur, looking all over him – I can’t see a wound anywhere –

But of course, his back was to me when Joyce shot –

Unthinking, I pull Victor forward and he cries out in protestation against the movement. I look over his back and yes – there –

Blood is seeping, thick and heavy, from between the edges of his body armor.

“You,” I growl, the wolf raising inside me, fixing my eyes on Joyce, who stands over us now. “I am going to kill you, Joyce –“

“Careful, Evelyn,” Joyce says, lifting his gun so that it’s level with my face. “You wouldn’t want your children to see both of their parents shot dead today, would you?” My body goes still. I know he has me trapped, but my lips still pull back from my bared teeth.

“Joyce,” my mother says, coming forward a step. But she stops when he fixes her with his gaze.

“That was a pretty speech you made a few moments ago, Mrs. Walsh,” he says casually. “I caught the tail end of it as I was coming through the door, after Victor so helpfully cleared the path for me.”

My mother says nothing, and Joyce’s gun is still aimed at my face, so I can’t move to see her expression.

“It’s unfortunate that there’s not an ounce of truth to

when he says that last word. It

my father, still knocked out on the ground next to my mother. “I have long been the power in this pack, and

voice breaking, and my hearing is attuned enough to every change in the room that I recognize

I haven’t seen on his face in a long time. Since our own short

but I hear no more steps forward. “What’s the point of all of this? You have lost. You don’t have a pack

He only got a small force in the back door and down this hall. The majority of his forces are still outside, and

– we all had assumed that

but then his cry is muffled. Someone has put a hand over his

around – or, even more, to look back down at Victor, to

my eyes,

he even breathing

heartrate ratchets up in panic. Oh my god, is he

a dirty sneer on his lips. “Now that I’ve taken out Victor, his sons will inherit his pack. And since I am

that escapes my lips at this news, this idea.

Joyce says, his voice light. “At kidnapping, torture,

mother gasp behind me as she figures out our role in Joyce’s

like,” Joyce continues, “everything has worked out neatly in my favor. As

he calls out, loudly enough to be heard outside the open door to the room. “Betas!” he commands. I glance away from Joyce to see a pack of Betas enter the room – some of the same ones

twisted smile down at me, “and put him

cry out, throwing myself on top of him. I can’t help myself – it was probably stupid to make a sudden move, knowing there’s a gun pointed at me,

relieved to hear Victor’s groan of pain

him,” Joyce growls, stepping around me and

“Joyce!” I shout out, still clinging to Victor. “You can’t! He needs a doctor! Now!” I yell. “Or

You’d think I’d have learned by now. I see his intentions on

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