Chapter 8 Dark

In the middle of the forest, inside the Lanton family’s big house, Talia had already packed all her stuff.

The sudden appearance of those pink lilies scared her, and so did Vincent’s hateful eyes. No matter whether Vincent had recalled Lena or not, she couldn’t risk staying here anymore. She had already gotten enough from the family anyway. She stuffed all the expensive jewelry she got from Vincent into her suitcase, and then her favorite limited-edition bags, and title deeds, and then dragged the suitcase downstairs.

Her personal driver, Tom, should have already been there waiting to take her suitcase, but she saw no one.

Not even Mrs. Mead who was always there trying to persuade her whenever she wanted to go out to party late at night.

The house was bright in white light but in a weird, absolute silence which somehow scared her. Talia couldn’t help but shiver, but she soon shook that feeling away and dragged her suitcase, walking to the front door.

Right before she reached the painted white single door, it was suddenly pushed open from outside.

Talia shrieked in terror, but soon recognized it was Samuel standing outside.

The college student was a tall, handsome young man. He stood there, motionlessly, in the cold night, staring at Talia with his sharp blue eyes, like a dangerous predator.

At that moment, Talia somehow had a feeling that he wasn’t a human. But in front of her, Samual had always been a kind but wussy person like Vincent had. Talia wasn’t afraid of him.

“What the hell is wrong with you?!” She accused the young man in a sharp, acid tone and rolled her eyes at him, “Don’t you know knock on the door first?! This isn’t your home anymore! How dare you barge in like this?!”

Samuel didn’t reply to this woman’s outrageous speech. He just took a step back and said in a plain, emotionless voice, “Vince had brought Tom with him to an important meeting. I will drive you tonight.”

Tom was Talia’s exclusive driver. Vincent had never borrowed Tom before. It was a lousy excuse. But Talia didn’t care about it. In her eyes, the two brothers of the Lanton Family were a pair of useless sissies. She didn’t believe Samuel would do anything harmful to her.

She rolled her eyes again, and then pushed her suitcase to Samuel.

“Then what are you waiting for?! Take it for me!” she ordered.

Samuel said nothing, but picked up her suitcase and walked to the limo outside quietly.

Talia then swaggered out of the door and sat in the compartment of the limo. It soon started off after Samuel put the suitcase into the trunk.

Talia pulled out her cell phone and started to take selfies to send them to her secret lovers. After she didn’t know how long, the street lights outside became brighter and buildings became familiar. Talia suddenly found that they had gone back downtown.

She couldn’t help but frown. “This isn’t the way to the airport! What the hell is wrong with you?! Take me to the airport! I am going to be late for my plane!!!” She yelled.

The partition between her and Samuel was up. No one replied to her. Talia somehow felt panicked. She screamed Samuel’s name and pounded on the partition with her fists, but nothing happened. And the car door couldn’t open.

Talia sat in the compartment alone, with sweat all over her face and back. After about half an hour, the limo finally stopped and the door was pulled open from outside.

Talia saw Samuel standing there with a cold, intimidating face. She still refused to surrender to this young college boy.

“What the hell is wrong-?!” She screamed but was pulled out of the car before she could finish the sentence.

Samuel grabbed her hair to get her out, and then dragged her inside the hospital like dragging a bag of stinky garbage.

Talia screamed and struggled. But Samuel just wouldn’t loosen his grip on her hair. Talia had never known a man’s strength could be so huge and scary. Even if she sat on the floor, kicking her legs, Samuel still dragged her easily as if she were just a piece of cloth.

After they reached a ward in the middle of the hallway, Samuel grabbed the back of Talia’s neck, lifting her up from the floor, and pressed her face on the cold glass wall.

“Look at what you did to him! Look at what you did to this family!” he said in a very cold, and dangerous tone.

Talia saw inside the ward Vincent lying on the hospital bed with an oxygen mask on his face. The thick gauze wrapped half of his head. He looked like a dying person.

“He hurt himself!!! He hit the vase with his head! How could it be my fault?!” She screamed.

Samuel’s grip on her neck became tighter and tighter. Talia started to shiver. Now she knew why Samuel brought her here, but she could never admit to hurting Vincent. If Vincent went dead or disabled, she would be responsible for that.

Samuel huffed a few helpless, cold laughs at her ridiculous chicanery.

“I couldn’t believe the Moon Goddess paired Vincent with you. I just couldn’t believe it,” he said.

Talia didn’t know what it meant. None of the Lanton family told her that they were actually wolves. Except for Vincent, they all hated her.

Still, she sensed danger from Sameul’s cold, cruel tone. She couldn’t help but raise her arms and ask, “Let go of me! Just let me go! I will leave New York. I won’t come back! Who cares about your impotent brother?! He is just basta-”

She didn’t get to finish her sentence. Samuel grabbed her hair and smashed her head on the glass wall with all the strength he had.

His power was so strong that Talia’s head broke through it. The sharp edges of the broken glass cut open her face. She screamed like being dropped into a pot of hot oil, but no one inside the hospital cared. It was a wolf’s hospital and all the wolves hated her.

After Talia’s scream and cry became faint, Samuel finally pulled her out from the broken wall and threw her on the floor.

Inside the ward, nothing happened on the machine that was monitoring Vincent’s health situation. It seemed that without his wolf, damage that occurred to Vincent’s mate wouldn’t affect Vincent anyway.

Samuel was satisfied with the result.

“Lock her up and show her how we treat our enemies,” he said to the old Beta who was waiting right behind him the whole time, and ordered coldly, “Be careful. Do not let her die, and do not let Vince find her.”