登入Liora's POV "If not what?" I asked, my voice rising as I glared at him.I was literally trembling right where I stood. Part of it was from the remaining adrenaline still pumping through my veins, but most of it was from pure, hot anger. I took a sharp step closer to Ronan, my shoes digging into the wet gravel."I am not your pity case who you can just come to save, Ronan," I said through gritted teeth, my fists clenching hard at my sides. "I do not need your saving. I never asked for it. So I would appreciate it if you just…""I believe what she wanted to say is thank you," Thorne said calmly, his steady voice cutting right through our shouting.He walked up from the side of the driveway, holding onto his injured arm with his good hand. Dark blood was seeping through his fingers, staining his torn sleeve, but his face remained perfectly steady. He reached my side and gently tapped my good shoulder, giving me a quiet, warning look.I turned around and forced myself to observe the yard
I looked down at Victor's limp body on the grass. I turned my head and gave Elias a quick nod. "Thank you.”"He was getting sneaky," Elias muttered, tossing the device onto the dirt with a thud.I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead and looked around the front yard. The noise of breaking wood and heavy punches had finally stopped. The rest of Victor's guys were completely down on the floor too, groaning and clutching their ribs and legs.I turned around and saw Marcus holding up Renn near the porch steps. Renn’s shirt was covered in blood, his fingers still clutching his stomach tightly."Are you okay, Renn?" I asked, rushing over to them."I am fine," Renn grunted, forcing a rough laugh that made him wince. "Just a few scratches, Li. It will heal up in no time."I looked at the deep wound and felt a lump form in my throat. "Thank you, Renn. Thank you for everything."Renn just nodded, leaning his weight against Marcus’s broad shoulder as they moved toward the porch.That was when I
Liora's POV "Someone you shouldn't try to mess with, that's who she is," Ronan shouted as his boots hit the grass right beside Victor and me.He moved fast. So fast that within a second, his shadow was over us, and his thick fingers wrapped around the zapping device. I guess that's the pecks of being an Alpha. I knew he was coming, I had sensed it right before Victor put me in a fix. He ripped it out of Victor’s grip and threw it hard across the yard. The plastic casing broke against a large stone near the driveway.Victor didn't expect the attack at all. Before he could even lift his arms to protect his face, Ronan hit him hard across the jaw. He followed it with a heavy punch to the ribs that sent Victor stumbling backward onto the lawn. Ronan had come out of nowhere, and his movements were filled with pure Alpha strength.The two masked assassins holding me down didn't have time to react either. Ronan turned, his elbow cracking right into the first man’s face, shattering the plas
Liora's POV "Thanks, Elias!" Thorne shouted. His eyes were glowing a bright, furious amber color as his long claws tore through the jacket of a third attacker, forcing the man away from the porch steps.Marcus was holding the center line near the truck, using his wolf strength to lift one of the black-masked figures right off the ground and hurl him against the side panel of our work vehicle. The metal dented loudly. Kira was right beside him, her movements fast and deadly as she used her smaller frame to slip under the long swings of the assassins, kicking out their knees and driving her elbow hard into their chests.But Victor’s men were professional assassins for wolves, and they were incredibly organized. For every three men we knocked down onto the grass, four more seemed to emerge from the shadows of the fence line. Slowly, the numbers began to wear our family down.Victor stood completely still by his sedan, watching the entire brawl with a lazy, bored expression on his face.
Liora's POV The porch floorboards creaked loudly under our feet as we stepped outside. The cool air hit my face, but it didn't cool the heat growing inside me. The trees at the edge of the yard stood completely dark and still, but the thick weight in the air told me we were completely surrounded. We already knew exactly who was lurking out there.Renn walked right to the edge of the porch steps, his jaw locked tight and his chest heaving under his jacket. He was furious. Furious for how much Victor had cost us and still had the guts to show up here. He didn't even try to hide his rage as he stared straight into the trees. "Come out, Victor!" Renn shouted, his voice ringing loud across the quiet property. "Stop hiding in the bushes like a coward. Show yourself and let us get this over with right now!"The silence lasted for only few seconds. Then, the low, steady rumble of a car engine broke the quiet. A sleek black sedan slowly drove down our gravel driveway, its bright headlights
Liora's POV "Did you really think you could hide from us forever, Liora?"The words were smooth, cold, and slow. They hit me like a splash of freezing water. My head snapped up toward the doorway, my breath catching tight in my throat.There he was…Victor.He was leaning against the dark wood of our dining room doorframe with that same smug, familiar smirk on his lips. It was the exact face that had haunted my nightmares for months. The face that forced us to pack our bags in the dark, abandon our lives, and run straight here, restarting our lives. He was the reason we were always on edge, checking our mirrors, and hiding our true scents. He just stood there, completely uninvited, staring at me with dead, heavy eyes. The sharp smell of old leather and cold metal rolled off his black jacket, filling the warm room.Then, everything around me went completely black.My head spun, and my vision exploded into quick, blurry flashes. I saw shadows moving fast through the trees behind our ho
Liora's POV "Is that how blind you all are, or do you just choose to be?!" She continued.She looked around at the onlookers, and several of them shifted uncomfortably."How can you easily judge people without finding out the whole truth?" she asked loudly. "Just because these people seem new, or
The heavy silence on the other end of the phone line was suffocating. Theo stared at the phone in Gage’s hand, his chest tightening with every passing second."Liora? Are you there?" Gage called out, his voice dropping into a deeper, more urgent tone."I'm coming home right now," Liora’s voice fina
LIORA'S POV The week following the beam incident had been quiet, but it was a kind of silence which came with the feeling that ‘this is the calm before the storm’. After the beam incident, Silas wasn't just a supervisor anymore; he was one of us. Marcus had cleared him, the rest of us got more co
It was finally a new week, Monday morning and the house has finally returned to normal, well almost. The chaotic Hargrove’s event had died down except, well… Theo is still a bit shaken, though he hates to admit it. I stood in the kitchen, staring at a cup of coffee that had gone cold twenty minut







