Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

Chapter 195: Holding onto Tendrils.

"That girl has it hard."

Inez listened to Scarlet speak through the phone. Now that her new identity was more or less fermented enough, she had little to no qualms in calling her sister. Once she had returned to her lodge, the first thing she had done was to call Scarlet while Killian did his own thing.

"I just don’t understand how someone can be this cruel," said Inez as she applied the last coat of shine topper on her nail paint. "Selene didn’t do anything wrong. She just said no to someone she has no affection for."

Scarlet scoffed as she rolled her eyes; the screen froze a little due to her actions before moving once again. "And here I thought that you would be the one to understand her better than the rest."

A frown settled between her brows as Inez asked, "And what do you mean by that?"

"Come on, Inez. Do you really never see through Dominic’s actions?"

She stared at her for a second too long, her brain switching from ’I know what she is talking about’ to ’whatever the hell she is talking about’. It happened so quickly that Inez was sure that her brain started to lag for a few seconds. She parted her lips and questioned, "Just what are you trying to say?"

"Nessie... I know that you have always been in awe when it comes to Dominic but you really need to step out of your little bubble. Why do you think he put you through all that torture?"

Inez placed the applicator of the nail topper on the small bottle before turning to look at Scarlet. She scrunched up her brows before stating in a low voice, "isn’t it because he wanted to hurt me?"

to accept it," she muttered with a scowl on her lips. "Inez, he did that for a reason.

all this while hit her like a punch to the gut. Those thoughts that she used to have were not exaggerated at all. Dominic actually, sincerely wanted to crush

that she went through flashed in her

few times. "I knew that there had to be a motive behind his actions but I never thought — no, no," she scowled before

didn’t want to admit the truth,"

than she had expected it to be. "He was someone I looked up to—my best friend ... the one man I

through the screen for a second before sighing. "I cannot understand how you even stayed alive this long with that naive personality of yours, Nessie. In a way, I believe our mom did you a favour by stopping you from telling the truth to Dominic. Maybe if you had told him

before she could stop herself. "He has never played

are already protecting him," Scarlet spoke with a

"I am not—"

caused Inez to halt; the two sisters turned around and looked at the door of

you

Their Mom.

mother but she still called out, "I am here; what do you

are here. They want

Inez heard the response of her mother, her eyes

Inez with a hint of determination and wildfire in her eyes. "I am not hiding