Chapter 287
Chapter 287:
“That Rogue nearly took my arm off,” he continued, his voice trembling. “And do you know why I never told anyone? Because if my mother knew I had risked the Alpha bloodline for a wolfless girl, she would have finished what the Rogues started. She would have killed you to purify the Pack p>
Silence, thick and suffocating, descended on the room. I looked at the scar, then at Braydon’s face. The narrative of my life — the belief that I was just a lucky survivor, a burden the Hyde Pack reluctantly adopted — was a lie.
I was alive because of him. The monster who had tormented me was also my savior.
“I own your life, Adella,” Braydon whispered, the madness creeping back into his eyes. “Every breath you take is a gift from me. You can’t just give it to him.” He pointed a shaking finger at Dallas.
“She owes you nothing but the contempt you earned,” Dallas said, his voice deadly calm, though I could feel the murderous heat radiating from him. “A life saved does not justify a life enslaved p>
“Is that so?” Braydon sneered. He took a step back, reaching for the door handle. “Then let’s see how much she can handle. I didn’t come alone.” He pulled the door wide open. “If you choose him, Adella — if you reject me now, after knowing the truth — I will release the evidence I have. I will show the world that the Hyde Pack didn’t just fail to save your parents. They let it happen p>
My blood ran cold. “What p>
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“Come in,” Braydon commanded.
Two figures shuffled into the room, looking smaller and more terrified than I had ever seen them. Alpha Marcus Hyde and Luna Victoria Hyde. The woman who had regarded me with disdain for years was now trembling, her eyes darting nervously toward Dallas.
“Tell her,” Braydon ordered his parents, his voice dripping with venom. “Or I burn this whole Pack system to the ground p>
Dallas moved to intercept, his hand reaching for his phone to call his guards. “This is enough p>
“No,” I said, my voice shaking but loud. I placed a hand on Dallas’s chest, stopping him. The debt of blood Braydon had just revealed was heavy, crushing my lungs, but the need for the truth was stronger.
I looked at the people who had raised me. The people who had let me believe I was nothing.
“Let them in, Dallas,” I whispered, staring straight at Victoria Hyde. “I want to hear it p>
Dallas looked down at me, his obsidian eyes filled with a mixture of rage and pain, but he nodded slowly and stepped back to stand beside the bed — a silent, lethal sentinel.
Braydon smiled. It was a twisted, victorious thing.
The trial had begun, and I was the judge, the jury, and the prize.
Adella
The air in the hospital room grew heavy, thick with the cloying scent of fear. It wasn’t coming from me this time. It was rolling off the two people who had governed my life for a decade — Alpha Marcus and Luna Victoria Hyde.
They stood by the door, looking less like the regal leaders of the Hyde Pack and more like cornered rats.