Chapter 157 Blood in the Water

Aubrey’s POV

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“So I deserved to be used by you? Used, hated, and trampled underfoot? Mariana – and who exactly gave you that right?”

I spoke slowly, each word pressing down on what was left of her dignity.

“Family background? You can’t compare to the White family or the Howard family. Looks? You’re not even a tenth of me. As for ability or character-”

I let out a short, derisive laugh and shook my head. “With your petty, thieving nature and almost nonexistent talent, what makes you think you’re in any position to look down on me?”

Her pupils contracted sharply.

“But I’ll give you this – there’s one thing you do better than me…” I leaned in close, my voice low at her ear. “Your shamelessness far surpasses mine.”

“Bitch!” Mariana shrieked, swinging her hand toward my face only for me to catch it midair.

In my eyes, her flushed, furious face was no more threatening than a clown stumbling in a circus act.

“Angry? Rattled? What a rare sight – I didn’t think you had it in you to lose control. Do you know what you remind me of? A hyena catching the scent of carrion – revolting.”

I stared her down. “I still can’t fathom how you could be brazen enough to steal credit for saving a nine- year–old girl’s life. Just looking at you makes me feel filthy.”

stop dragging omega and beta status into this. In terms of character, you as a


spoke each word like a sentence passed. “You are the lowest kind of

onto the ground – not because I’d used much force, but because the killing intent in

Pathetic.

a moment to appreciate her humiliation, then turned to

into her wolf form on the

“Watch out!”

motion. I tried to sidestep, but my gown snagged on the jagged

“Aubrey!”

the night. He’d come looking for me and in a blur too fast for the eye to follow, he closed the distance,

descending toward him. My heart clenched.

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him bleed.

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Kajit virus. It wasn’t her life I cared about it was the certainty that if this got

chaos.

would descend like hyenas on fresh

thinking, twisting to reverse our positions and shield

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