Rejected And Disowned Now Claimed By Four Ruthless Alphas
He’s the kind that doesn’t stop once he starts.
I try to rise, blood dripping from my chest, from my shoulder, from too many wounds to count. But Dagen slams me back down with one brutal strike of his paw, and I go sprawling, the wind knocked from my lungs.
The floor is cold. My ribs are screaming. My vision flickers.
And still, I don’t fight back.
Not like I could, but also not like I want to.
Because maybe I deserve this, maybe I deserve worse.
A snarl echoes above me, Dagen’s again, but it doesn’t come with another blow. There’s a pause. A silence filled with rage and breath and the undeniable scent of Veyra, still lingering like a memory too strong to kill.