Chapter One Hundred And Fifty-Three

Shannon's POV

I downed the glass of wine in my hand rather quickly as I poured myself a new one, filling the glass to its brim this time around.

I was pissed and trying to calm myself down before I did something that I might come to regret in the nearest future.

After all these years, I thought that I was finally going to be unchallenged and I would have everything I wanted – especially the revenge that had kept me up for most nights during the past five years but it seemed like everything was going to end up in waste as it stands.

No one knew what I had been through or how I had survived after running away from the Mayert pack either, they were all interested in my success story but they didn't want to know how I got there.

Before I met Benjamin, who had helped make life easier for me, I used to sleep in front of stalls every night where I had to fend off attacks from rapists and bandits, I rarely came out of those attacks unscathed but I won every battle I was up against even thoug