Chapter 71

Inez swallowed hard when she heard his unapologetic words. Killian had spoken his desires out loud so directly that she had no words to say. And even if she somehow managed to unclench her throat, she couldn’t say a word because the darkened gaze of his, which was raw with need, stole her voice the very second their gazes met.
“Quite gripping, don’t you think?” he asked, addressing the pull and tension that was between the two of them. She could feel her siren stirring inside of her as she almost surfaced, only for Inez to suppress her back down because she knew that if her siren made an appearance, Inez was not going inside the lodge alone tonight.
“I will have you,” he rumbled as he raised his hand and caught her by the back of her neck. “I will fucking have you, Inez. You can deny me all you want, but you will be mine and he used his thumb to brush against the crook of her neck. “And I will leave my brand right here, bubbles.”
On the other hand, at the Venus pack, Scarlet finally stepped out of the dungeon. Her clothes were in tatters, and there were numerous wounds covering her skin, but when she walked out of the doors of the dungeon, her head was held high.
“Do you really think that your sister is going to be free forever?”
Scarlet raised her head and turned to look at Eve, who stood outside the dungeon like a dungeon guard. She sighed, not wanting to engage in a foolish quarrel with a woman whose IQ was less than a mentally retarded person’s.
However, just as she turned to walk away, Eve chased after her. She came to a stop in front of Scarlet and remarked, “Are you trying to kill her, Scar? You know that Inez is now a latent. She has lost her wolf. She cannot shift, nor could she fight with the rogues. Letting her run around alone is like leaving a piece of meat in front of wolves. She will be eaten clean.”
“And yet.” Scarlet paused as she looked at Eve and Blake, who stood right behind her. “They will be kinder to her than the ones in this pack.”
Eve’s face turned pale upon hearing the mocking words of Scarlet. She parted her lips and swallowed hard, but no word came out of her mouth.
Sensing that the woman had turned silent, Scarlet walked past her; however, she had only taken four steps when Blake came to stop her.
“What now?” she questioned, sighing heavily as she was annoyed by the constant obstacles. All Scarlet wanted was to go back home and take a bath. She had been locked up in the dungeons for more than a week, and she was covered in filth. She needed a bath as quickly as possible.
Blake studied her expression and spoke, “I am telling you to not back up Inez, Scar.” His voice was like a whip. “That woman… she is not what you think… she has been lying to you all along.”
“Are you sure that she is the one who is lying to me?” Scarlet snickered as she tilted her head to one side. “And is it not you who are seeing things incorrectly? Sometimes things are not what you see, Blake.” She added it when the man went to say something. “There are many ways to see and explain one perspective without proper investigation. I trust my sister, not because she is my sister, but because I saw her fight till she was bleeding when we could have lost our lives.”
“She could have died that night, Blake,” Scarlet reminded him coldly. “The fact that you stood with everyone despite knowing what kind of person Nessie is only proves that she should have left you alone to die that very night. Even her worst enemy would have been kinder if she had saved them like she did for you.”
After she finished speaking, she walked past Blake. Her shoulder bumped into his as she strode past him.
“I am only looking out for you. I just think that you are being lied to because I saw—”
“I don’t care what you saw.” Scarlet paused and turned to look at her with an annoyed expression. She spread her arms and said, “I really don’t. Nessie is my sister and my saviour. The one person who became my mother when my own was too fucked up to care for me.”
“If she hadn’t stepped up, I wouldn’t be here. I would be lost in some drug addiction centre,” she raised her hand and exasperatedly spoke. “She is my everything, Blake. Maybe you will never be able to understand it, but I do. And I will never stand against her, no matter what. So you can go and tell your alpha like a good little mutt that I am not saying anything.”
Blake clenched his fists when he saw Scarlet walk away without looking at him. The distance between the two of them grew more and more until he could feel his wolf press against his surface.
He wanted nothing more than to lunge at the woman and bring her back, but he knew that he couldn’t. Blake knew that even if he made his claim on Scarlet, she would deny it. Even if it meant dying in the process.
“What’s up with her?” Eve stomped her feet and glared at Scarlet, who had walked away without giving her the answers that she wanted. She turned to look at Blake and stated, “Why did you let her go? You should have peeled a layer of her skin. As long as you had tormented her enough, she would have spoken the truth!” Thᴇ link to the origɪn of this information rᴇsts ɪn.net
“Do you even know how many projects are pending at the moment? Everyone keeps asking me to finish them. How am I supposed to do that when Inez is not here?”
“Maybe use your head?” Blake lashed. He turned to look at Eve while suppressing his wolf, which wanted to take a bite out of her neck for insulting Scarlet. “You have been working with her for so long; don’t tell me that you cannot even draw a single design?”