Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

Chapter 197: No longer useful

Scarlet sucked in a breath. Her eyes flickered subtly, but she controlled her heartbeat just in time before Dominic could catch her. With how sharp Dominic was, she knew that the man would sense something amiss in a matter of seconds.

"Yes, what about it?" Trying to keep her protectiveness to a bare minimum, she asked the man.

Dominic’s eyes narrowed down at the woman in front of him. He interlocked his fingers and placed them on the table before questioning, "Was it mere coincidence or something else?"

The tension in the room became palpable as Scarlet shifted on her feet. She carefully composed her face, but there were countless worries raging within her heart and body. Trying to keep her voice awfully casual, she asked the man, "And what else would it be?"

She glanced at Evelyn before stating in a supposed-to-be calm voice, "I don’t know what she has told you, but I just ran into that woman at the store and we talked a little. Why? Is there something else?"

"You mean to tell me that you never noticed the similarities between her and Inez?" Dominic pressed on even further, and when he spoke, his voice was low and controlled, but Scarlet could taste the storm that was raging within him.

"Similarities? Not at all." Scarlet had long adapted the art to lie. She pursed her lips when Dominic growled at her, but she didn’t falter at all. Instead, she continued to speak in a cold voice, "I don’t know what you are thinking, Dominic. But you need to understand that you need to stop looking for Inez in other women."

Bang!

his fist on the table. The man’s breathing turned ragged as he spoke

the path she was taking was a dangerous one, she knew that she had to persist. "Inez is gone, and so is your bond. It’s about time you get your head out of your arse and worry more about the children who went missing last week. Do you even know that the woman who gave birth

were getting lost every other week, and that wasn’t all. Unique and rare shifters were getting lost every now and then. Scarlet had lost count of how many shifters their pack had lost in the past few months.

Dominic? Not so much.

a plan for the complete annihilation of the shifters or something worse. They needed to be

far, but Scarlet continued to hold his gaze. "If Inez were here, she would be disappointed in you, too, Dom. Trying to look for a substitute? Are you for real? Trying to break her wasn’t enough; that you are going to insult her in this way now? Really now, that’s a whole new low. You know that,

as if she is

for you as long as I am

wolves leaking their aura in the room. Evelyn’s face had turned pale, and she looked like she was having a

glared at one another before Dominic slid back in his chair. "Be glad that you are her sister, or else I would

I would have been fine." She shot a fierce sneer at Evelyn, who glared at her before turning around on her feet and walking away. However, just as she reached the door, she paused and turned to look at the man behind her. "And oh, the lies that she keeps telling you about how Nessie will return

break her

a loud snarl erupted