LOGINVIOLET
There was no single remorse on his face as he said those words. I wondered how someone could reject you without even looking like he cared at all.
My mouth remained open as no words would come out. This couldn’t possibly be happening. Why was he doing this to me? It felt like my heart was being shattered into thousands of pieces and there was nothing I could do about it.
“W-What?” The words left my mouth in a stutter.
“You heard me. I don’t want you as my mate. The sooner you get that into your head, the better.” He looked at me with disgust, written all over his face.
If looks could kill, I’d probably underneath the earth. I wondered why he was looking at me with such hatred in his eyes. Like I was some vermin that had crawled from hell. I felt like collapsing into a puddle. This couldn’t be happening.
“You heard what he said.” A voice said from the crowd.
I watched as the slut of the pack, Sienna, gingerly walked up to meet us. Tristan’s eyes were set on her, watching her every move as she stopped before him. I watched as she snaked her arms around him.
Her long black hair fell to the small of her back. Her lashes seemed to flutter the more she stared at Tristan. She was looking at him with what looked like hearts in her eyes. I felt like throwing up. It was all so disgusting.
He wrapped his hands around her face. I couldn’t help but watch in remorse as she crashed her lips against his. He let out a hum as he fervently kissed her back, both of them oblivious to the stares of the crowd around there.
With each second I stood and watched them, it was another second that my heart seemed to shatter into pieces even more and more. They didn’t care that I was standing right there before them or that my whole world was crumbling right before my very eyes.
They finally stopped after what seemed like forever. Tristan turned to regard me, his face twisting in disgust.
“I could never accept the reject as my mate.”
He pulled away from Sienna and turned back to me, disgust creeping back on his face. I could tell whatever he was going to say again would shatter me completely. My heart thrummed violently against my chest. I didn’t think I could take another onslaught of it. Unfortunately, he didn’t look like he cared much.
“I don’t like you. I have never liked you. I will never like you. As a matter of fact, we don’t need a retch like you in this pack.” He closed the distance between us.
He was so close; I swore I could feel his breath on me. The whole place erupted into murmurs of agreement. I looked around, wondering if there was anybody, anyone at all that would come to my aid.
What I saw was something I expected…it didn’t make it hurt any less though. They were all looking at me with disgust written all over their faces. They didn’t care one bit. I bit my lip, my body trembling with both heartbreak and anger.
All this while, I had suffered through nothing but pain. Yet, they had decided to pay me back this way. After everything I had endured from them. Tristan had noticed my trembling and was staring at me.
“I won’t take it.” My voice was low, I barely even heard myself.
“What?” Tristan asked.
“I said I won’t take this.” I whipped my head up to glare at him. “You think you can just do this to me? After everything I’ve been through?”
I pointed at every single one of them present, the rage welling up in me the more I looked at their pathetic faces. I refused to accept their mistreatment any longer. They thought it was okay to treat me however they liked. Like hell, I’d accept that.
“You call yourself an Alpha. Yet you remained silent and watched them all treat me this way. You let them do this to me. You let them bully and punish me. You let them treat me like a maid and all for what, huh? Because my parents aren’t here anymore? Is that it?”
My rage would not be caged or controlled anymore. Something in me wanted to stop and just cower into a corner but I was done doing that. I would not remain silent in the face of this injustice any longer. I turned back to Tristan, my eyes burning with hate and anger
“You might call yourself an Alpha but you’re nothing but a fucking coward.”
For a split moment, I was happy that I had let out all the things I wanted to say. Immediately, I started to wish I hadn’t said that. The hard look on his face let me know that I had definitely stepped on the wolf’s tail.
Before I even had any time to react, my face whipped to the side and I collapsed on the ground. Tristan had just slapped me. I looked up to see him glaring down at me like I was some ant beneath his shoe.
“You really had fun running your mouth like the bitch you are, huh?”
He spat on me before proceeding to kick me in the stomach. I let out a pained yelp, my eyes fluttering close as the pain seemed too much to bear.
“Morris! Jay! Grab her.” Tristan ordered.
Just as I opened my eyes, two male pack members grabbed me and hefted me up to my feet. I was now staring Tristan straight in the eye.
“Since you’ve proven that you’re not worthy of all the kindness we’ve shown you in this pack, I thought of doing you a favor.”
My eyes widened as my heart rate sped up. I had a feeling I already knew what was coming.
“From this day onward, you are no longer a member of West Creak Pack.”
It was then, I felt my world crashing down. I didn’t bother fighting the darkness that consumed me.
LUCIAN“Alright, so what have we got?”Zayn spread out every single one of the document he had in hand, and began reading them out.“We’ve got about three lesser packs that have pledged allegiance to our cause, one of them being Farlorn.”“Farlorn is good,” I nodded, eyes skimming over my copy of the documents. “They have the seaside advantage, something we can utilize to our cause.”Zayn nodded. “Exact. And then there’s this letter that came in from MoonBay today.”“MoonBay?” I froze, my mind wandering back to the summit.The twins had approached us with an air of formality. Things had long since escalated since the summit and word had gotten out of Tristan’s declaration of war. So it was safe to say, everywhere had been thrown into a set of preluded chaos.“This letter came in from MoonBay?” I repeated.“Yes,” Zayn nodded, eyes pouring through the paper. “The Alpha himself has chosen to ally with us and says he’s ready for a one-on-one meeting with you both.”I nodded, my expression
VIOLETMe?He wanted me? My head was suddenly heavier, different thoughts spinning through my mind faster than I could make sense of.Why did he want me? There was no plausible reason as to why that would be the case. He had no reason whatsoever to want me.For crying out loud, he had his own mate now. One which he obviously doesn’t fancy as much, but regardless. It made no sense as to why he was demanding for me.Reese’s eyes narrowed, right before she ripped the paper out of her mate’s hand. After some seconds of skimming through it, she tore the paper into shreds and tossed it to the ground.“He’s gone fucking mad.” She growled.Zayn looked just as pissed. “Who does he think he is? And to declare war just because he wants Violet?”Lucian had been quiet this whole time, his gaze calculating but never once leaving me. I knew there were so many things on his mind, a lot he wanted to say. It had been just as he feared.A week ago when he’d had that outburst, this had been his fear. Tha
VIOLET“Any update on those tabloids?”Zayn was focused on the phone in his hand, furiously typing away at it. “We’ve gotten a good number of them down. Some annoying blogs don’t want to let go of it though.”Lucian fixed up his tie. “I trust you can handle that.”“Leave it to me,” Zayn checked his watch. “Soon as we’re done with this meeting, I’ll get right on it.”Lucian nodded, fixing up his look one more time. Behind the doors before us was a conference hosted to address all the concerns that had sprouted after the summit. Of course it wouldn’t clear as quickly as I’d thought it would.That would be wishful thinking to assume it would. I guessed Lucian knew that much. He understood it, knew just how much things would blow up. And we were just as ready to get things straightened out.He turned to me, reaching for my hand. “Are you ready?”I sucked in a breath. “Ready as I’ll ever be.”“We’ll be at the front in case anything happens.” Reese said, reaching for Zayn’s hand. The beta s
VIOLET“How long do you think Lucian’s going to keep him for?”Reese was quiet, far more so than I’d have liked her to be. I wasn’t completely surprised about her certain unresponsiveness. Rodriguez was a touchy subject, both for Lucian and her. but it didn’t make it any easier to decipher what exactly was going through her mind.I’d told her everything that happened that afternoon, from Rodriguez’s outburst to Lucian ordering that he be thrown in the slammers. But I hadn’t imagined I would get this kind of reaction from her.So…detached.We finished up with the last of the supply checks just as the sun dipped into the horizon. I exchanged some more pleasantries with the workers before we left the warehouse.“Reese?”She finally blinked, then let out a breath. “Sorry, spaced out a little bit.”“So,” I tried again. “How long do you think Lucian’s going to keep him there for? A week? Or, a month?”“The question is, how long is he going to survive for?”That made me freeze. How long he w
LUCIANShit. Shit.I’d imagined a hundred and one things when Violet had stormed into my office like that. None like what she’d actually said.She was hot on my trail too, her footsteps echoing in sync behind me. I was too focused to pay much heed to it.“Lucian.” She triedI simply grunted, hurrying over to the border gates. Standing there was none other than Rodriguez. He seemed to have been in some sort of exchange with the guards but as soon as he sighted me, a smug grin found its way to his lips.“The Alpha finally graces us with his presence.”My eyes narrowed. “What are you doing here? I thought you’d long since known your place by now, at the north border where I stationed you.”“Oh, bullshit.” He pushed past the lanky guard before coming to stand toe-to-toe with me. No one should have such gall on any other day, certainly not him. But he seemed oddly ballsy for some reason.“You think you can just throw some wad of cash at me and keep me at that shithole? Oh spare me that. Yo
LUCIAN“Fucking bastard.”That was the seventh tabloid I was coming across in the span of ten minutes. Since the events at the summit, Tristan had gone straight to work at making sure all the blogs carried talk of what had happened.DarkMoon Alpha’s violent reaction stuns guest at Summit.Are Lucian’s abusive tendencies finally coming to light?What goes on in the mind of a narcissist?I tossed the tablet aside and sank back into my seat, trying to hold back the anger threatening to spill out of me. Zayn was all but quiet as he watched me. He must be pissed by the tabloids as well but he was doing a better job at holding back his anger.“The PR team’s already working on it, but not like that’s going to do much good,” Zayn let out a sigh. “He’s done a pretty good job of making sure this spreads like wild fire.”“And the media’s eating it up too.” I growled.Zayn clicked his tongue. “The main issue is with the Alliance. We need to make sure this doesn’t shake their standing in any way.”
VIOLET“You haven’t answered my question. Why the hell did you just barge into my room like that, huh? What makes you think you have the right to do that?” Lucian asked, his tone sounding angrier than before.If he looked irritated before, he looked furious now. I cleared my throat, wondering if co
LUCIANThe car slowly rocked past stony paths before finally pulling on to a clear road. From the corner of my eyes, I noticed Zayn turn his head in my direction.“You could have just said we’d be going to see her,” Zayn sounded a bit annoyed.“I wanted it to be a surprise,” I shrugged, trying to f
VIOLETI tried to maintain my indifferent mask, trying not to let any emotions slip through. I knew a bit about Lucian already. Any slip-ups I made would be used by him to further manipulate me and get what he wanted. I wasn’t about to let that happen.“Oh really?” I folded my arms, eyeing him from
TRISTAN“I give you one job. One simple job for you to do.” I paced up and down the office as I glared at the men assembled before me. I could feel the anger building up in me the more the thought crossed my mind—and it definitely crossed my mind every single time.“And you do this.” I flung the gla







