Chapter 0820 I make it about a mile around the perimeter when suddenly I hear my name shouted angrily in the air. I spin immediately towards Gabriel, knowing that it's him - that it can only be him. I was expecting him eventually, after all. For a second I consider flitting back to the Castle and evading him more but...no. It's not necessary. This encounter is going to happen, and I don't need any more information within the Castle to elongate the chase.

He's still quite a distance away, though, so I turn and keep running, both to keep up my façade of trying to escape as well as to put him through his paces a bit. Gabriel - he's annoying, and I think I'm fitter than him, so the more I can make him work to catch me the better.

It doesn't last long, though. I never had a chance - as with Rafe and Jesse and Luca and Jacks, I can't outrun those long Alpha legs. Plus, I am wearing slippers, which are very impractical for running. "Ariel!"

Gabriel snatches my arm, pulling me backwards to him, snarling with his rage.

"Let me go!" I shout, trying to rip my arm from his grip.

"God damn it, Ariel!" he shouts, smacking me hard across the face. I gasp, a hand flying to my cheek as I glare up at him.

"Stop doing that, you fucking coward!"

"Stop being disobedient, you tiny whore -"

narrow my eyes. "How dare you. How dare you

are my

leaning dangerously close, his

elongated and ready to bite. "You will do as I say and obey me. flinch back despite myself, knowing that he's lost his tempter enough now to be dangerous, and with his wolf

my only chance to keep his mind off of whatever I was really doing outside

would I obey a pathetic little Beta prince like you,"

hurt. God, it's just...too easy to

want your Luna to obey?"

real Alpha and give me

you. You're pathetic,

her areason to want to stand by

turn away from him, intending to

just grabs me back and hits me again, this time not with his open hand. I moan a little as my head snaps to the side, as I stumble a few steps, seeing stars. I lift my hand to my jaw where pain blooms, moving it experimentally, hoping to my grandmother the

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