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CATHERINE. The closer we got to the border, the more I wanted to back out, but Purity was right. We owe it to ourselves to meet Maddox and sever ties if needed. Although she was looking forward to meeting our mate and spending time with him, Purity was affected by Tyler’s sadness, and she told me that Black was not communicating with her. I guess Black did a good job of making my wolf think twice about what she wanted. But there was no time to dwell on that at the moment, as we had arrived, and I had to face Maddox. I tried to block any emotion from showing on my face when I stepped out of the car. I didn’t want him to see that he was affecting me in a negative way. My eyes darted to the people around the border. There were far too many — not the usual men around when a guest was coming. Jace didn’t trust Maddox at all. My gaze found Grandpa David and Grandpa Theo among the men at the border. They were here to see Maddox, who was standing ten feet away from our border with fiv
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CATHERINE. I’d been staring out the window for far too long before I finally decided I could not stay here and just wait for things to happen. I needed to go out of my room so I could also check the entrance and exits of this packhouse. Nadine had shown me a floor plan, and I wanted to see if I could find the panic room in case I needed to go there. As soon as I got out of my room, I headed to the stairs and to the main floor. I would explore the upper floors later when I already knew who the people living in the packhouse were. The last thing I wanted was to bump into someone who might harm me, especially when my wolf decided to ignore me again. Purity was silent in my head. She was sad when we left our packhouse but got excited when we scented Maddox, only to be disappointed because Maddox was ignoring us. I wanted to tell her, “I told you so,” to let her know I was right that Maddox was not the type of mate Tyler was, but then I chose not to. She was smart enough to figure tha
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CATHERINE. “I need my luggage,” I told the Beta after Mindy left us in the kitchen. I was holding the ice pack on my cheek. “He has it. But I can ask him later. I can also ask Mindy to look for clothes you can wear in case he won’t return your luggage today.” I let out a frustrated sigh before a question came out of my lips. “Why are you staying here? Your Alpha is a monster.” “Maybe give time to get to know him. Maybe… maybe…" “Maybe, what? That maybe he will change? That the bond between us can make him a better person?” “And why did you come here?” He asked, his eyes narrowing. “I could tell that you don’t like him at all.” He replied in a hushed tone before he looked around and motioned for me to follow him. We went to the main kitchen, and the three Omegas there turned around to greet us, but Xander raised his hand, stopping them from doing so. I handed one of them the ice pack before they all just went back to what they were doing while we exited a door leading to the ba
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CATHERINE. A loud gasp left my throat as I was pulled inward into the room, but before I could scream, a hand clamped over my mouth, stifling any sound from coming out of me, and by the sparks traveling in my body, my intuition was right. Maddox was here. I closed my eyes and steadied my breathing. I had to calm down, or he would not let me go. I was not mistaken. The moment I stopped wriggling my body, his hold loosened, and he let me go from his arms. I immediately spun my body to face him before I stepped back, creating a big distance between us. He was letting his aura come back up. He suppressed it earlier, which is why I was not able to feel his presence completely. “Why are you here?” I asked. “I want to talk.” “We can talk outside.” I tried to sound friendly. “No. We will talk here.” “I’m not comfortable having a man inside my room.” “I’m your mate.” “You’re still a man.” “Really? Are you telling me that you saved yourself for me?” He said this as he slowly steppe
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CATHERINE. I lifted my arm and saw that red marks began forming as the pain intensified. My jaw tightened as I gritted my teeth before they chattered when another pain shot right through my chest, making my body move voluntarily, and I fell to the ground. It was painful like my chest was being ripped apart, but I refused to cry. I swear, I would make him pay for every bit of pain he gave me. I knew there was no remedy for this. Grandmother Jessica told me that she endured this pain for over a year before my grandfather finally decided to man up and choose the female he wanted to be with. This was still a sensitive topic in the family, but for some reason, I found myself asking her about it when I was sixteen. She said she would take sedatives to fall asleep, but most of the time, she would bear it on her own until she just became numb. But aside from not having access to sedatives at the moment, my body was also reacting badly to them, so that was why they didn’t sedate me during
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CATHERINE. I woke up because of soft knocks at my door, and my heart immediately hammered in my chest as everything that happened in the last 24 hours sank in. My eyes flew to the window, and I could see that the sun was already out. ‘We made it to the morning, Purity.’ I told my wolf. ‘Yes, we did. But the game is not yet over.’ ‘I know, but I feel safer in daylight than at night.’ I said as I shoved the blanket off my body and stood up because the knock kept coming. “Who’s there?” I asked as I stood in the middle of the room. “It’s me, Lady Catherine.” “Are you…” “Yes, I am alone.” She answered before I could finish. “Please let me in before he sees me.” For some reason, I didn’t feel any hesitation to trust her today, but for safety, I grabbed one dagger. I trust Mindy, but not Maddox. I opened the door slightly, my eyes roaming around the corridor, and when I saw no one except her, I opened it completely and let her in. “How did you know I was here?” I asked as I closed
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CATHERINE. I haven’t encountered any of Maddox’s pack members except the Omegas at the packhouse, so I had no idea what I would be facing. The Beta wanted me to go somewhere and hide until the training was over, but Purity and I agreed to face it head-on. I knew Maddox was pure evil, but a part of me wanted to believe that the people in this pack were part of the family my forefathers governed, and based on how proud Grandpa David would talk about them, I knew most of them loved the Montrell. And I hoped they would remember that before they attacked me. It was already past ten in the morning when I decided to go down and head for the training area. I knew no one among the people I saw along the way, and although they were looking at me weirdly as if scrutinizing me, I kept my head up and kept walking. “Finally, you showed up.” Maddox’s voice rang in the quadrangle, and all heads turned in my direction as I walked toward the makeshift arena where they stood. “Of all things, I hate
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CATHERINE. “I love you too, Jace,” I said it back with a wide smile on my face before I slowly put down the receiver. The moment it clicked, my lips quivered as my hands coiled into fists. I just lied to my brother and plunged myself deeper into Maddox’s hell. *FLASHBACK 30 MINUTES EARLIER.* After the training with his Ace warriors, Maddox took Daisy and me to a warehouse where some of his illegal weapons were stored. I had no idea this place existed or why he showed it to me, except that I thought he wanted me to know what he was capable of doing. Grenades and guns of different calibers were there, as well as high-class explosives that I had never seen in my whole life. Daisy was enamored with them, but it worried me. But I didn’t have time to think about it or ask him about it because he already had another thing in mind by the time we left his warehouse. He took us directly back to the packhouse. It was already past lunchtime when we came home, but instead of eating lunch, h
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