Chapter 29

Inez knew that she needed to shut her mouth and walk away. However, her siren side was filled with rage and humiliation. Sirens were never good with walking away from a fight and Inez was finding it hard to do the same. They were creatures so ethereal that even Kings would fall to their knees at first sight, so how could Inez accept this lack of respect?
“You are wrong.”
“Excuse me?” Domini pinned her gaze with his and questioned, “What did you just say?”
Inez sucked in a breath and stepped past Killian. She was thankful that the Lycan shifter had stood up for her but this was her battle and she needed to fight it if she wanted to have the last word. She tilted her head to one side and stated, “You are wrong. The reason you went on with this torment is not because I did something to deserve it.”
She rolled her eyes because she didn’t even know what she had done to deserve this much pain and humiliation. She had asked, begged and even grovelled for the pack to relay the truth to her, but they were sort of unified. As if telling the truth had become taboo.
Holding Dominic’s gaze, Inez spoke to him, “You did it because you knew that I was weaker than you, because you knew that I cared for you and my friends.”
Her smile turned a tad bit mocking as she continued, “And because I care about you motherfuckers, no matter how you take your anger out on me, I will not fight back. I will take your anger and unjustified accusation because I fucking liked you.” The source of this content ɪs
“Inez, you have no idea what you are talking about,” Tao snarled as he rushed to the aid of his alpha at once.
Inez cocked a brow and shot the beta male a smirk, “Oh but I do.”
She turned to look at Dominic and said to him in a clear, cold voice, “If you really believed what you said I did, then you would have killed me, Dominic. You might not like to hear this but I know you better than anyone.”
“The fact that you left me alive is enough proof that somewhere you also know that there is something fishy about the so-called evidence that you speak of. But you let your anger rule your judgment, and by the time you calmed down, it was too late for you to back down.”
Inez’s words brought a surge of emotions that Dominic shut down. He wasn’t wrong; he saw the woman in the surveillance recording and knew that it was her. There was nothing wrong with his judgment.
Of course, Inez knew what the man was thinking. After growing up with him, she knew that his stubbornness was like her pride. Once he had set his mind to something, he would never listen to anyone else unless they provided contradictory evidence.
Something that she didn’t have at the moment.
She shook her head. There was no point in harping over her ’truth’; not a single person alive on this planet could make Dominic believe what he didn’t want to believe.
“I think I have repaid whatever I did in your opinion —”
As soon as she finished speaking, Dominic’s face flushed and he snarled at her, “You can never fucking repay what you have done, Inez!”
“Oh, but I did,” Inez growled back. Her wolf might be too weak to surface, but she hadn’t lost her siren side. She straightened her spine and growled right back. Tugging off the wolf necklace that she always wore, she stepped forward and thrust it into Dominic’s hand. “I didn’t say a word when you made me the punching bag of the entire pack. I didn’t fight back when you claimed that I was a traitorous tramp, but you know what?”
She scrunched up her face and continued while staring into Dominic’s eyes. “I did it because I cared but I don’t. Not after what you did last night. You ruined our friendship, fine. You rejected me as your mate? Also fine. But you had no fucking right to snatch my wolf from me, Dominic. Not a single fucking right!”
“My wolf’s almost dead, and so am I! This is what you wanted to see, right? I hope it was fucking worth it.” and now she needed to get out of there.
“Inez, don’t you dare storm out.”
As she turned on her feet and headed towards the exit, she glanced back at him over her shoulder. “If you truly believe that I did what you think I did, you would have your hand wrapped around my throat and snatched my heart out of my chest. But deep down, you know and your wolf knows too, that I didn’t do it.” She turned her head and faced the front before stating in a calm voice, “Anyway, you can believe whatever you want. Because I just don’t care anymore.”
With that, Inez waltzed out of the office building. Then, while cursing a blue streak, she stomped to the parking lot. This day couldn’t turn any shittier, could it?
However, as she stepped inside the parking lot, she realised that, yes. Actually, it could turn even worse. Standing against her truck, draining one of the cans of coffee that Inez usually carried in her truck, was the one woman Inez didn’t want to see today.
Everything in her wanted to lash out, to put this bitch out of her miserable agony that she always mirrored onto Inez just because she was so insecure in herself. But that was exactly what Eve would want her to do. That would give her another reason to cry and sell pity, where she would ask Dominic to lock Inez up in the prison like she did in the past.
However, with her big escape plan set in motion, Inez would be a fool to fall into the trap that this woman had dug for her. But running from a problem was never Inez’s response; thus, she stepped forward and walked over to where the heifer was standing.