#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.

Joyce continues. “It’s unfortunate that there’s not an ounce of truth to it. This

breaks when he says that last word.

my father, still knocked out on the ground next to my mother.

attuned enough to every change in the room

shut up,” he snaps, glaring at her with a bare hatred I haven’t seen on his face in a long time. Since

of this? You have lost. You don’t

quite,” Joyce says, glaring at her. “You see, while Victor succeeded in getting 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. The majority of his forces are still

at this news – I had assumed – we all

cry out, but then his cry is muffled. Someone

– or, even more, to look back down at

close my eyes, listening

he even breathing

heartrate ratchets up in panic. Oh my god, is

my eyes to see that he’s looking back down at me, a dirty sneer on his lips. “Now that 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 neat argument for why the

my lips at this news, this

your best efforts, Emma,” Joyce says, his voice light. “At kidnapping, torture, and murder

as she figures out our role in

worked out neatly

the room. “Betas!” he commands. I glance away from Joyce to see a pack of Betas enter the

smiling that twisted smile down at me, “and

can’t help myself – it was probably stupid to make a sudden move, knowing there’s a gun pointed at me,

hear Victor’s groan of

me and delivering a swift

“Joyce!” I shout out,

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

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