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.

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


whip had shredded her clothing, and her back was a grotesque

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,

the security station, it was already deep into the

my father called

I stopped.

low and almost pleading. Perhaps he felt guilt for having

Home?

where

home,” I

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myself replaying what far

bad begged me pleaded for the to tell Alpha Henry not to tend him to the vampire lands. He claimed he

did that


in my mind. “Alpha

irises glinted like flame beneath the night sky, and a faint, unreadable smile hovered at the corner

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

Damn it.

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