#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.

unfortunate that there’s not an ounce

had been pretending breaks when he says

Delia, and me. “Not yours. Not his, even,” Joyce says, indicating my father, still knocked out on the ground next to my mother. “I have long

and my hearing is attuned enough to every change in the room that I

at her with a bare hatred I haven’t seen on his face in a long time. Since our

“What’s the point of all of this? You have lost.

into this room, he never broke the siege on this house. He only got a small force in the back door and down this hall.

news – I had assumed – we all had assumed that

muffled.

more, to look

close my eyes,

he even breathing

ratchets up in panic.

I’ve taken out Victor, his sons will inherit his pack. And since I am the regent protector of the Walsh pack,” he begins to smile now, “I’m sure I can make a

groan that escapes my lips at

his voice light. “At kidnapping, torture, and

mother gasp behind me as she figures out our role in

like,” Joyce continues, “everything has worked out neatly in

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 who were in here earlier, planning with my father. I see

twisted smile down at me, “and put him in the

to make a sudden move, knowing there’s a gun pointed at

as it is, I’m relieved to hear Victor’s groan of pain as I do

Joyce growls, stepping around me and delivering a swift kick to

wincing at the sharp pain that sets my ribs on fire. “Joyce!” I shout

look up at him, somehow still shocked by this man’s cruelty. You’d think I’d

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