Chapter 18 Beginning to Fight Back

Aubrey’s POV

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When she saw me, Aurelia arched her slender brows and sneered. “Well, well; look who it is—our distinguished young miss! You sure made quite the scene last night. What now; planning to show off again today?”

Then she noticed the change in me–my bangs swept back to reveal a smooth forehead; the fitted gown from the Miguel family gracing my figure.

Her carefully made–up face twisted in an instant. “Who told you to wear your hair like that? Dressed like a little tramp at your age–who are you trying to entice?”

I stood beside the sofa, face cold, listening to every barbed word. Aurelia had always been like this–two- faced, one mask for the world, another at home. I’d heard far worse when I was younger.

Once, a Beta–ranked female wolf at school had cornered me in the bathroom; she tore my dress into a miniskirt, drenched my clothes with water. But when I got home, instead of comfort, I faced Aurelia and Bailey, gleefully piling on lies: “Your daughter ripped her own skirt to seduce the male werewolves!”

father’s motto had been simple–the whip speaks louder than words. He’d lock me in the basement and teach

me; only when my wounds

exchanged a few words, she would curse me out as if I were a streetwalker; claim I spent my days trying to seduce men; say my wolf hadn’t awakened because I was morally depraved, my thoughts

long ago; it was their damned drugs that blocked the process. They stole my chance at a normal life;

at Aurelia; then

voice cool, “is Father going bankrupt? As the young miss of the Mary family, I’m reduced to eating the maids‘ leftovers? If we’re that poor-” I swept a glance across the room, “perhaps we should let a few maids


calm tone made the busy maids freeze in place; but they didn’t panic–my words

house.

respond to her insults, grew more furious. But when her gaze fell on

with no awakened wolf–who do you think you are,

an Omega without a wolf, thinking she can turn the world upside down? If you can make an Alpha fall in love with you–marry you as his Luna–then maybe I’d have nothing to say. But now? Ha! Let me tell you this meal, you’ll eat it today, whether you want to or not! If you

cheekbones were high, when she smiled, she looked

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