Chapter 9: Consummation of the connection (18+)

(POV: Lina)

"Forgive us, Supreme Alpha, please," Melanie pleads as she and her group kneel before me, tears streaming down their faces. "Please."

"Show them what happens to those who disrespect, humiliate, and hurt the Supreme Alpha. Show them that you neither forget nor forgive. Show them that you retaliate, Supreme."

I look at them, kneeling and crying, and should feel happy, but I don't. I look at them and only feel pity, even though I should watch them perish for everything they've done to me. But, I don't want that. I'm not like that; I don't enjoy vengeance, nor do I like holding grudges. I don't want to seek revenge on them.

So why am I doing this?

"I forgive you!" I speak, and they look at me, smiling.

"Thank you, Supreme," they all say together, rising and leaving my presence.

"You fool!" a man's hand grabs me by the collar of my jacket. "Forgiveness is for the weak! And I didn't make you weak, you failed project!"

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"Ring, ring, ring, ring."

I wake up swe