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Chapter 3 Walking Away in Blood

Author: Shearheart
I had just started to get up and move away from the lights when Rosalind approached me, carrying two glasses of fruit wine. She stopped in front of me, her teasing gaze sweeping over me from head to toe. "Aveline, why are you so bundled up? I've never seen you dressed like this before."

She held out one of the glasses, but I did not take it.

Rosalind did not seem embarrassed in the slightest. Instead, she raised her phone, her eyes suddenly lighting up. "Oh, the angle and atmosphere from where you're sitting right now are actually perfect. Let me take a picture of you to remember the occasion."

Before I could answer, she stepped closer and pointed her camera directly at me. "Don't move. Just stay exactly like that."

The next second, the flash suddenly went off.

A blinding burst of white light struck my face, and an intense, searing pain erupted across my skin. I let out a muffled groan and instinctively raised my hand to block her phone.

My hand had not even come close to touching her when Rosalind suddenly let out an exaggerated scream.

She deliberately threw herself backward, landing heavily on the ground as the fruit wine in her hands spilled everywhere.

She frowned and clutched her lower back, her voice trembling with tears. "Ow, my back! I think I pulled something! Aveline, why did you push me?"

Just then, Stephen approached me carrying a plate of the pastries I loved, his expression gentle. But the second he saw what had happened, he tossed the pastries aside and rushed over. "Rosalind! Are you okay?"

He immediately crouched down to help her. Then he looked at me, and fury instantly blazed in his eyes. Without even thinking, he shoved me away with all his strength. "Aveline, have you lost your mind?"

I was already weak and burning with a high fever. I could not withstand the force of his shove. My body lurched backward, and I crashed hard into one of the scorching floodlights.

The blistering-hot bulb burned straight through my robe. The blisters on my back, which had not yet healed, burst instantly. Blood and oozing fluid soaked through the fabric, leaving a large smear of blood across the ground. Agony tore through my entire body. I collapsed onto the floor, trembling uncontrollably.

The surrounding pack members heard the commotion and immediately gathered around us. Voices erupted from every direction.

"Why is there so much blood on the ground?"

"Could she have some kind of strange disease? No wonder she's wrapped herself up like that!"

"Ms. Warwick was only kindly trying to take her picture, and she actually attacked her! She's far more vicious than I thought!"

When Stephen saw the blood spreading beneath me, shock and a flicker of regret flashed through his eyes. He reached out as if to pull me up, but Rosalind quickly moved into his arms, her eyes red as she spoke timidly. "Stephen, I'm scared. I only wanted to take a picture of Aveline. I don't know why she suddenly attacked me…"

She lowered her eyes, her voice filled with hurt. "I know Aveline has never liked me, but I never thought she would go this far just to hurt me."

Instantly, the brief hesitation in Stephen's eyes vanished. His brows drew tightly together as he looked at me with undisguised disappointment. "It's nighttime now. There isn't any sunlight. How much longer are you going to keep putting on this pathetic act? Going this far to set all of this up is beneath you! The Aveline I knew was never like this. What has become of you? Get out of here. Don't stay and embarrass the entire pack!"

The entire time, not once had he asked whether I was in pain.

All around me, the pack members whispered and gossiped. Their scrutinizing, contemptuous gazes felt like needles digging into my skin, and a deep chill seeped into the very depths of my heart.

I clenched my back teeth so hard that the metallic taste of blood spread through my mouth.

But I did not shed a single tear. Using every ounce of strength I had left, I slowly pushed myself up from the pool of blood.

My heart had gone completely cold. Dragging my bloodied, mangled body behind me, I walked away from the noisy, bustling celebration banquet one step at a time, alone.
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