Chapter 75 Retribution and Resistance

Aubrey’s POV

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#Finished

“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.

fists, fighting back the seething hatred surging inside me. Compared to what she and Bailey


the floor. The whip had shredded her

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

the security station,

father

I stopped.

pleading. Perhaps he felt guilt for

Home?

deceit? That place where I’d been shackled, manipulated, and

not my home,” I replied

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I found myself replaying what far

tell Alpha Henry not to tend him to the vampire lands. He

Hemy did


mind. “Alpha

of the shadows. His dark–purple irises glinted like flame beneath the night sky, and a faint, unreadable smile hovered at the corner of

sight of him, the tension in my body loosened for just a second. Something in me quieted, calmed- like his presence alone

Damn it.

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