Chapter 218

Inez stiffened as she raised her head and looked at the man in front of her. The all-too-familiar scent washed over her, and it took all her control not to lunge at the man and slash his throat from his neck. Yeah, that was how badly a siren took rejection. Her eyes met those of Dominic, who stared down at her.
“Are you okay?” Dominic reached out to hold her.
His reaction towards her was instinctive, as the fragments of their bonds still lingered between the two of them. Inez sighed and stepped backwards. They had no future together anymore; there was no reason for her to entertain those broken fragments.
Dominic’s eyes darkened when the woman stepped away from him. He couldn’t understand the irrational desire to lock the woman up. She was not his mate; she was Killian’s woman, and even if she shared many similarities with Inez, it didn’t make her Inez. Even her scent was all wrong, and yet he couldn’t help but be drawn to her.
“Dom?” Eve, who was clutching Dominic’s arm, peered at the woman standing behind them and back up. Her eyes widened slightly when she saw the familiar possessiveness in Dominic’s eyes, the same one that she had seen when the man had looked at Inez. Even when he was with her, he was looking at her as a substitute for Inez.
She would never forget the fact that he called her Inez when he fucked her after getting drugged, even when he was out of his mind—that woman never left his fucking mind.
Jealousy burned heavily in her heart. Why? Why was he looking at another woman with the same possessive gaze as Inez when he had never looked at her like that?
She recalled how her father nearly had to go on his knees to get her out of prison. It was only when her father used his authority as the former beta of the pack that Dominic allowed her to step out of the prison cell, but in exchange, her family lost all the privileges that she had as the daughter of the beta. Thıs content belongs to.net
The humiliation was still fresh in her mind.
Eve turned and glared at Inez, who arched a brow. She stared at Eve’s expression, which was filled with ferocity. She wondered if this was how she had looked at Dominic and Eve when they were together. But then she shook that thought out of her head; that was impossible. Even if she was Dominic’s mate, she had her own identity other than just being a woman obsessed with Dominic.
She would never show an expression as hideous as that.
“I am alright. Please step aside now, Alpha Cherith,” said Inez as she tried to morph her voice into one that Dominic couldn’t recognise. She was still learning the skills of sirens, and without a teacher, she was not getting any better, but small advances were still better than nothing.
Dominic parted his lips, but Inez had no desire to listen to him. She walked past him, her head held high as she could with her siren demanding that they pull his sternum out and shove it down his throat.
If the man knew what kind of deadly thoughts were surging in her head, Inez was sure that he would have never looked at her with that stupid, adoring gaze of his.
It’s late…
Her siren hissed within her head, and Inez ignored her. Her siren could speak, and she was a really big presence within her body, but she often stayed quiet without saying a word. The only reason she chose to break that silence was because she was worried that Inez would forget the pain that Dominic had given them.
As if she could even forget the pain. The humiliation that she had received was enough to make her burn for centuries.
“Are you okay?” Selene’s voice snapped Inez out of her thoughts. She lowered her head and looked at the woman who was staring at her with a frown on her face. Seeing the concern in Selene’s eyes made Inez smile. She said with a nod, “I am alright. Don’t worry.” There was no way she was going to let Dominic bring her down again.
Dominic watched the woman leave. He could still not understand why his heart was feeling stifled. The familiar ache of losing his mate intensified every time he was close to Lyla, but the woman was not Inez. There was nothing about her that was like Inez; even her scent was different. Shifters could never change their scents. Their scent was like their identity. They could mask it but never change it.
There was nothing — absolutely nothing — that could make him confuse the woman with Inez.
And yet he couldn’t shake off the pain that was doubling even further.
“Dominic!”
Dominic snapped out of his thoughts and turned to look at the woman beside him. His wolf, who was pacing inside of him, growled. He didn’t want Eve anywhere close to him, and yet Dominic had brought her along with him because the elders of his pack told him to keep up appearances.
Eve was still the genius designer and the one woman who had brought fame and glory to their pack; it would raise questions if they abandoned her without any answer to other packs, and the truth would shatter their pride.
Dominic understood their reasoning. His wolf, on the other hand, did not.
He pulled his hand away from the woman beside him. He glanced at her and said to her, “Don’t step out of the line, Evelyn.”
Instantly, her eyes filled with tears as she looked at the man. She said to him, “You liked it better when I used to step out of the line, Dom. When did it change?”
Yeah, when did it change? He liked Evelyn. Enough to keep her around, she was a much better she-wolf who would wait and follow him around, unlike Inez, who would stand eye to eye with him. And yet, the giddiness that he felt was gone.
Fool. growled his wolf like he knew something that Dominic didn’t.