Chapter 0392

Tiffany stepped in front of me, blocking Jessica from getting too closely.

“Her name is clear, Jessica,” Tiffany said.

“I don’t care if they didn’t fuck,” Jessica growled. “At the very least, she tricked him somehow. He’s a decent guy. He never would have behaved this way on his

own.”

“Back off, Jessica,” Veronica said. Her voice was terrifyingly calm for the amount of anger that burned in her own eyes. Veronica, I knew, was the only person in the room to truly be afraid of. She might be away from the underground now, but she still had magic.

“I didn’t sleep with him. I didn’t trick him.” I wished she would believe me, but she shook her head at my words, as if shaking them away from herself before they could sink in.

If I was free to talk, I would tell her that Nicholas was the one I wanted. That the night Joyce claimed we were together, I was likely with his eldest brother instead. But that would endanger Nicholas and his run for the crown.

So I had to keep my mouth shut and take the brunt of her rage without much of a defense.

“You slept with all of the princes,” Jessica said, and the words irked straight through me, pushing back all my sense of calm. Of forgiveness. Instead my wolf reared its head, its own anger stoked.

wanted to fuck all three princes so you could go home to your little hick town and feel important to all

made people act irrationally. I knew that.

want to hurt Jessica. She was already hurt. She was just

  1. me.

and

to go somewhere.

I growled very slowly, trying

do you act

voice from the

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Nicholas took up place between Jessica and I. He kept his back to me, facing

tense as he was, his closeness gave comfort to my raging wolf. Slowly, my rage began

thing I wanted to do was hurt someone, especially someone

closer to me.

okay now,” I whispered and

mine. I gave her a reassuring squeeze.

stone wall between me and Jessica’s rage.

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