The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 144

Chapter 144

Sophia’s sobs filled the room, but I felt no sympathy for her. Not after what she and her family had put Ella through.

“You all need to pay for what you’ve done,” I said, turning to Richard and Margaret. “All else aside, hiring someone to kidnap my wife goes far beyond simple meddling.”

Margaret scoffed. “She was never in any real danger. That rogue was just going to rough her, up, scare her-”

“You had her drugged, tied up, taken to a barn in the middle of nowhere, and nearly raped.” My voice was hardly more than a growl. “And he intended to take pictures of the entire thing like some kind of humiliation.”

“Alexander, please be reasonable,” Richard said desperately. “Our pack needs this alliance. We’ve invested everything in maintaining good relations with your territory. And ultimately, no real harm was done. Ella wasn’t actually hurt.”

“But she was,” I hissed, feeling my wolf rise to the surface of my skin. “That was an incident that she’ll never forget for as long as she lives.”

Margaret and Richard exchanged frantic looks while Sophia whimpered in the background. My wolf raged, urging me to rip their throats out right then and there. But I controlled myself- for now, anyway, and only because Liam was standing there and the Alpha Council would have me sent to prison for life if they found out.

Liam would probably go to prison right alongside

Liam. He took a step forward and curled his lips into a malicious sneer. “If this goes to the Alpha Council, it will create a massive scandal. We’ll

snarled. Threatening me was one thing,

for it. I couldn’t bear to

again, I’ll go to the Alpha Council myself about your crimes. And you must perform community service for Ashclaw for the next two years, make public donations to a

forward, “if you breathe a word of this

widened. “You

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“You’ll

was still crying, but she frantically turned to her parents. “Please, Mommy and Daddy. Please do what they say. I

whispered bitterly. “We accept

“Now get out of my house. All

with Gabriel showing them out, Sophia casting one last desperate

in silence for a moment, both too stunned by what had just happened to speak. The punishment didn’t feel like enough, but