Semua Bab The Cursed Alpha And His Rejected Bride: Bab 81 - Bab 90

DianaWhen the shock faded, anger took over.“He was a greedy bastard,” I paced the room, my jaw locked hard.“Diana…I still think you should be calm. You’ve been through a lot this few…”“Is!...not ‘was’. He is a greedy bastard!” I huffed. It’s not in the past or anything. He still literally just sold me to a man he thought would kill me, thinking I was useless…especially since I was a late shifter.A late shifter couldn’t possibly have the powers he was looking for, right?Oh, how bloody wrong he was.“Diana, please…”I shook my head. “This isn’t over. Not by a long shot.”I was fuming. My hands were shaking, itching for the chance to sink my closed fists into the skull of that man – Donald Crossfield. So much for being a father.He was a monster!‘I think you should listen to Edric,’ Rhena swooned, obviously enchanted by the man. I didn’t blame her. If I wasn’t a piping steam pot of wrath, I would’ve been swooning as well. His morning hair was packed lazily, and the mess created a

DianaI woke up to a space beside me, the sheets already cool where Edric had once lain. My eyes fluttered open fully, and there he was, standing near the window, fully dressed. From the grainy vision my tired eyes managed to conjure, I could see deep brown boots on his feet, up to his calves.He was fiddling with something.Cuffs, perhaps.He had this determined look in his eyes, the type of focus that you’d expect from a seasoned hunter who had already chosen his target.“You’re dressed,” I murmured, stretching my arms over my head.“Mm-hm.” His voice was distracted, his eyes locked on something in the distance through the window. “You might want to do the same.”I sat up, rubbing the sleep from my eyes. “What’s the…where are we…”He turned to me slowly, lips twitching with something that looked a lot like satisfaction. “We’re going to pay your father a little visit.”That pulled me completely awake.“Oh…yeah! That!” I hopped out of the bed, then, paused. “Wait…now?”“We had better

DianaI was pacing.There was nothing gentle, this time, about my feet padding across the floors with so much force, the furniture shook and I didn’t care. I didn’t care if the sound of my feet could wake the dead. I wanted it to.“Who does he think he is?” I hissed. “Threatening to kill people in broad daylight just for reacting to the truth? For breathing?”Edric was sitting on the edge of the couch, elbows resting on his knees, watching me. He was calm. I was infuriated.He’d already changed out of his riding clothes, but his eyes followed me like a man tracking lightning through a storm.“They didn’t even like me,” I muttered, stopping just long enough to yank my boots off and toss them aside. “But I could see it in their faces. They were horrified and it wasn’t because of me. Maybe I was a catalyst, but it wasn’t because of me. It was because a lie that they had believed all these years had just been revealed. He lied to them.”“It appears so,” Edric simply said.To be honest,

DianaI was inside my wolf.But I wasn't just inside her. I was her…and yet still me. This was weird. It was dark, and yet, at the very same time, I had never seen anything with as much clarity as I was seeing them now.I was seeing through her eyes.The trees were sharper, the leaves, crisper. I could hear too. The ringing of the crickets, the rustling of the leaves as the evening breeze blew past.This was what it was like to shift.It only took me 22 years.‘Took you long enough,’ I said. I couldn’t talk…not physically, but she could hear me. It was almost like the reverse. Before, she was the one speaking inside me. Now, I was speaking inside her.‘This is what we have been meant to be, Diana,’ she told me. ‘I just…I never saw the right moment.’‘Fair.’ I paused. ‘But why now?’ I asked.‘I trust them,’ she replied simply. ‘They seek nothing but good, not just for me but for everyone around them.’We glanced across the clearing, and the instant I locked eyes with Edric, I knew Ban

EdricChaos.My kind of Chaos. I would have said that it hurt me every time my sword sliced through the flesh of anyone unfortunate to challenge me.I would have said I thought about their children…and wives. I would have said I felt a little pinch of guilt, maybe even remorse, when I heard the cries escape their lips in their last moments.If I said that, it would have been a lie.I didn’t feel a thing, and if I did, it was closer to pleasure.I was a monster, and this was my reality.But it was nothing compared to the manic smile on Diana’s face as she moved. She was possessed, and something in me was scared.I didn’t want her to become like me.That would have been damaging.‘Just this time,’ Bane told me. ‘Allow her to revel selfishly in this long-awaited revenge.’She was beautiful.Her movements, while not as fast as mine…or as smooth as mine, for that matter, we still an absolute marvel to watch.She was reckless, grotesquely so, and I was convinced that was even what made it m