Chapter 136
The Dark Guards, the councilmen, the Elder, and even Nate were watching this like it was a fictional event, something played on the TV where a script was involved and hours of rehearsal where the characters feigned emotion without really feeling it. That’s what this was to them, a puppet show, put on for their
amusement.
“I agree to the change of rules,” the Elder announced.
Of course, you do, you perv.
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How come every person in a position of power is a man who doesn’t see women as anything other than sexual objects or childbearing machines whose only purpose is to exist for the joy of men and submit to the cruelty in which they dominate?
We’re not human or werewolf, we’re nothing…I feel like nothing.
But to get it from a woman who’s so emerged in their dehumanizing way of thinking was something else, something more painful and heartbreaking because who’s going to protect me now if not another woman?
Lady Hale stood behind me still and her fingers rested around my neck.
Gabe was watching me, he took a step but Abby pulled him back and walked ahead as though she was protecting him this time.
“Why are you doing this? How can you be part of girls being Hunted and caught like prey or subjected to pain like I have been?” I don’t why I asked her that or what I thought I’d gain from it but I couldn’t sit on my tongue when all of these questions screamed in my brain.
“Because I believe in tradition and that the leadership of men is only as strong as their strongest woman. We are what drives them, without a good woman
you can’t expect a great man,”
“But you’re forcing girls into it,”
“Nonsense, they all know what they are getting into, they are taught since the moment they are born about our proud traditions and the Hunt is the oldest one of all. Nobody is forced, they’re all honored to be there,”
“I wasn’t,” The hairs stood on my arms and my neck and I gulped.
“I know,” she whispered with her lips hovering by my ear, “that’s why you were so fun to watch. That’s why they chose you as their pawn. That’s why you’re here, being used and abused while your fellow girls are happy in their packs getting fed and fucked by their strong Alphas. That is why you had to break,”
My heart dropped into my stomach and I had to force my legs to keep me up when I felt them buckling beneath me.
The grey colors of the room seemed even bleaker than when we entered and it felt like something in here was sucking out every ounce of good that we brought with us.
Darian moved and I saw a crack in his veil, there was a spark of emotion in his eyes and it wasn’t a good one. It was the rage that would look at me in our early days, the one that would be my home whenever he was near me, and he couldn’t hide it as he stalked towards me.
Darian towered over me, drew to his fullest size, and grabbed my face in his hands.
Before I could even blink he claimed my lips in a passionate kiss with his tongue entering my mouth and I put my hands on his chest and tried to push him off. There was not a chance that I was sleeping with him here in front of everyone.
They weren’t going to see me naked, I would sooner die than continue being part of their twisted game.
He paused for a breather and whispered against my lips.
“Trust me,”
His lips engulfed mine in a heated passion, my hands relaxed against his chest and his hands dragged down my neck-my arms- and rested on my waist as he pulled me in against him.
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One of his hands circled around my back and he pressed me against him roughly, pulling me away from Lady Hale’s touch and her nails ripped my skin as
her hand fell.
Darian spun me around, everything happened within one breath and suddenly I stood behind him, he covered my sight of Lady Hale, and all I heard was a loud gasp.
“I have a counter-proposal,” Darian growled with his claws lodged in her abdomen.
Her eyes were narrowed in anger rather than pain, her nostrils were flaring and her lips curled up as she gritted her teeth. He pulled his claws out and dug them into her side as he pulled her in towards him, his breaths fanned her face and his lips parted over hers.
“You made me break a promise,” he said against her lips and seethed, “You shouldn’t have touched her,”
The door opened but everyone was watching the Council’s beloved Lady Hale being impaled by the Lycan King.
Darian used to like her, I remember gossip going around the different packs about the King of Valeria and the Queen of Alphas as they called her, they were said to be a forbidden couple who only ever saw each other for a few hours at a time and never in public.
He had his Bells and he had her, he’s had everyone he’s wanted and what if they keep showing up expecting a part of him- and what if he can’t say no?
His Bells are precious to him, who’s to say that he’ll give them up if I choose to stay with him?
“King Darian!” The Elder called from the center of the room.
We heard the tapping of quick steps against the floor and Darian froze with his claws dug deep into Lady Hale and blood was pooling from her mouth.
“I wouldn’t,” the Elder added.
I gulped, a presence entered the room, a strong one, and I was almost too intimidated to turn and see who it was but when I did our eyes locked, her hair fell in big waves down half her face and a stuffed bunny hung from her hand with its other paw touching the floor.
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