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CORA“Can you please just explain what the hell is going on?!” Alex’s voice thundered through his living room.“You asked me to trust you, to follow your plan, and now—” He jabbed a finger toward me, his eyes blazing crimson red with anger. “Now it seems like you don’t even know what the hell you’re doing!” I watched him silently, sitting still as he paced back and forth in front of me, his hands running through his disheveled hair in frustration. I slowly uncrossed my legs and set the wine glass in my hands on the table beside me. Rising to my feet, I fixed him with a cold stare.“You said you confirmed Scarlett was dead!” He growled his fists clenched at his sides. “How the hell is she back in our lives? And now she even has her wolf? What if she’s got her memories back? What if—” His words cut off abruptly as his voice rose to a roar. “What if she remembers everything?!”“Shut the hell up!” I snapped, my tone sharp and firm. “Why?!” He took a threatening step closer, his face

SCARLETT Later that Evening.“Who is the lender?!” I heard my mother yell at Myla in the living room, from my room. “I-I advised her to invest, I didn’t know she was going to use her shares as collateral,” Myla stuttered in reply. “That’s not my question Myla! I said who is the lender! Who did the shares go to!” I heard her yell again. A moment of silence followed and Myla’s voice came again. “I-I don’t know ma’am” she muttered.“Well find out! I don’t pay you heavily to not know! It’s your job to find out!” “Yes, yes ma!” I heard Myla say, followed by shuffling of feet and then the sound of the door going shut. I slowly pushed myself off the door, as I crossed the room and sank onto the edge of my bed. I reached for my phone in my back pocket and dialed Callum’s number. The dial tone filled the silence, each ring echoing in my ears as I waited patiently for him to pick up. No answer. I tried again, and again, but it was the same outcome, no reply. With a deep sigh, I swiped

CALLUMLater that night ..“These are the only functioning surveillance cameras in the area,” Nolan said to me as he led me inside community control unit. I stood by the door and the staff there turned to greet me with a bow.“We’re sorry, but most of the cameras in that particular area is not functioning,” Someone, who appeared to be the head said to me.“Why the hell are the cameras not working and nobody thought to let me know!” I thundered, my angry voice taking up the whole space. They shook in fear with their head faced down. “Now is not the time Callum, Relax,” Cole muttered at the back of my mind. My hands balled into a fist beside me, I exhaled deeply and nodded slowly as their head bowed to me again, he gestured and led me towards a bigger screen. The video began playing, shadows flickering across the screen. Suddenly, two silhouetted figures stepped out of the dark. My hand shot forward almost immediately, pausing the video. I slowly zoomed in, the figures sharpening int

SCARLETTI stepped out of the office and slammed the door shut behind me, my chest heaving with suppressed anger. My footsteps echoed through the empty hallway as I moved forward, my mind racing. Then I heard the sound of approaching footsteps. I looked up and froze. Alex. My heart skipped a beat as a vivid memory flashed through my mind: his hands wrapped tightly around my throat, as he painfully rejected me. That had been the most painful moment of my entire life. Seeing him again like this, the pain resurfaced, but slightly less painful. I swallowed hard, forcing myself to move, but instinctively took a step back. His lips curved into a smirk as he changed his direction, obviously from my mother’s office and headed straight for me. I sauntered backwards further, until my back finally hit the wall softly.“You’re really not a ghost, are you?” he drawled, gazing down on me, irritation very evident in his eyes. His eyes raked over me as if I were an unwelcome intruder in his ter

SCARLETTMy phone beeped with a text, I took it out of my bag and it was from Myla. -22, Pine Falls. 10:00pm- The text read. I paused and responded.-What about Arthur? We need to protect him at all cost--He has moved to the house you secured for him. I’ll make sure his safe- she texted back. I sighed deeply and tucked my phone inside my bag as I headed inside. Hopefully they don’t act funny and play by the rules because I know them well enough to know that they don’t play by the rules.I know my mother has always wanted to be affiliated with the Alpha family by all means. Which is why I thought I was lucky when Alex called me his mate, I had thought my mother would finally look at me with the exact same eyes she looked at Alyssa with. I had thought she would begin to treat me better, but then I realized that she hated me even more than I could imagine. Because when she found out it was me who was mated to the Alpha, she connived with Alyssa to seduce Alex and get him to marry