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Chapter 38

Hope

The last time I saw Darius like this was the other day when he had been upset with me about Kyle. But this time there was no one here to tell me to run or bear the brunt of Darius' aggressiveness but me.

"Let go of me!" I tried to wrestle myself free from his rough hold but he didn't budge one inch.

"I said try again, princess. It seems I've been too lenient on you which is why you have the audacity to slap me twice in the span of a month." Darius' voice sounded husky and harsh. Like he was not himself.

I wasn't a fool not to know that his Lycan side had taken over. What I didn't know what how much time I had till the beast cut my head off my body.

"Just let go of me. I've said all I wanted to say to you so leave me be." I lowered the pitch of my voice, hoping that it would somehow tune down Darius' anger. It didn't.

"That is not what I said you should do, princess! You've been acting all high and mighty these days, parading around with that lover of yours, and now yo
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