Chapter 75 Retribution and Resistance

Aubrey’s POV

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“Ah!” I gasped and pretended to stumble back in panic, allowing the Beta officers to lunge forward and shield me..

They shifted into their wolf forms, their claws slicing through Aurelia’s flesh with sharp, wet rips. The sound of skin tearing beneath claw was nauseatingly vivid. Aurelia shrieked, collapsing and forced back into human form, a crumpled, blood–drenched heap on the floor.

The trial that followed was absurdly smooth. Jimmy’s testimony cleared me of all suspicion. Aurelia and Bailey, however, were thrown into cells laced with wolfsbane. As the ringleader, Aurelia was sentenced to one hundred lashes. The whip had been soaked in wolfsbane–every strike a fiery brand that would burn for weeks.

Before the sentence was carried out, one of the enforcers turned to me respectfully and asked, “Ms. Aubrey, do you wish to pardon her? If so, we can cancel the punishment.”

“No,” I replied coldly. Without hesitation.

I would not forgive.

At those words, my father opened his mouth, likely to plead, but then shut it again. He had no right to ask anything of me.

I didn’t watch the flogging, but Aurelia’s screams pierced through the walls like music–beautiful, cathartic.

But it wasn’t enough.

hatred surging inside me. Compared to what she and Bailey had done to


of blood across the floor. The whip had shredded her clothing, and her back was a grotesque mess of torn skin and blackish–purple bruising- wolfsbane coursing through her

brutal but fair: those who were punished were denied wolf–healer care. It was a deterrent, a reminder. Her wounds would fester and rot with pain for weeks, and that brought me genuine

station, it was

father called

I stopped.

pleading. Perhaps he felt guilt

Home?

pit of deceit? That place where

my home,” I replied without

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building. I found myself replaying what far happened before I left

tell Alpha Henry not to tend him to the

did that for


in my mind.

a tall silhouette stepped out of the shadows. His dark–purple irises glinted like flame beneath the night sky,

for just a second. Something in me quieted, calmed- like his presence alone was a

Damn it.

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