Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

Chapter 34: A Befitting punishment

"I know," ignoring the glare that Inez shot her way, her mother patted her on the shoulders and stated, "But rebellious kids like you need some stern talk. Unless your weak pulse is pinched, kids like you just won’t listen."

Inez sucked in a cold breath. She tried to ease the subtle burn in her chest but nothing eased the anger after listening to the cold and heart-chilling words of her mother. That was all she was and would be in the eyes of her mother—a rebellious kid who didn’t know anything better.

Just because she had the blood of a siren in her veins, her mother had determined that she was a lost cause and there was nothing that she could do about it.

Her words were hurtful but not enough to make Inez lose her calm. She pursed her lips and spat, "Fine."

She then spun on her heel and ignored the triumphant smile on her mother’s lips. Just one more night, tomorrow she would be free of this nonsense. Though she knew that her sister would have to suffer quite a lot of injustice because of her actions, Inez knew that Scarlet was made of tougher shit than her mother.

She stepped outside the room and walked to the living room, where Blaise was waiting for her.

"What do you want to say?" she asked with a stern note in her voice. Inez didn’t wish to waste any more of her time than she already had. She could be getting ready to escape this prison of hers but no, things just had to go south and in a way that she didn’t like.

saying, "Can we talk in the

Though she didn’t know why this man wanted to drag her to the garden, she nodded. Anyway, it wasn’t as if he could kill and bury her in the garden

of them stepped out of the porch and walked down the stairs before stepping down the freshly mown grass. Just like everything in the house, it was perfectly trimmed without any signs of overgrowth. The shrubs and

looked pretty but it was not something Inez would like. She had this artistic streak that poked her from within and told her that she could do much better but in the eyes of her mother it would turn into nothing but a wasteful

stayed quiet, waiting for the man to tell her what he wanted to tell her. Since he certainly didn’t come

watched him walk over to the old tree in the corner of the garden and then heard him sigh, "I remember planting this here with you and the boys." He touched the trunk of the tree

crossed her arms and stated in a cold voice, "It’s going to be cut down in a few days, so you might as well take

her; he looked visibly confused and asked, "You are

"Yes," Inez replied coolly.

"Why?"

gotten old and doesn’t suit well with the look of the garden. So I let her cut it down," Inez lied. Though she hadn’t given her permission to her mother to cut down the tree, it was true that her mother didn’t like this old and gnarled tree and had been asking

Maybe she would let her mother have it removed. Maybe that would soothe her mother a little once she found out that her daughter had run away

past, her mother had asked her to cut down the tree

once together. She kept the tree safe and protected because Inez thought that she was protecting their friendship but now she thought of her actions