Chapter 81:

JUNIPER.

Her hand smacks my face so roughly, the pain stings my cheek, and tears gathers at my eyes, but I don’t cry.

Instead, I stand there, trembling. My hand still clutching my already swollen face, I muster my voice to say something, but it comes out tiny and weak. “I am sorry, mother.”

“Nonsense!” She thunders heavily, she pulls at my hair, the pain at my scalp burns hot. “You kissed him. You kissed the Alpha, why did you betray us like that?” Her voice is a mixture of disdain, and tears threaten to fall out more.

Because I like him! I kissed him because I like him so much!

Everyone looks at me with pure hatred, ‘oh just look at her, she kissed that damn alpha and she liked it.’ I am standing in front of the house in the woods, the same place I came that day, chairs surrounding me. I await my judgment. Certain dark eyes follow mine, Cleo’s hands are placed on her laps, she’s seated like the others, not even saying a word, it’s hard to know what’s running through those eyes.

Hatre