Chapter 56
“I did not let him mark me,” I seethed.
His lips pulled over his teeth and he leaned in an inch, not enough to make it obvious to others.
“I didn’t see you fight it,”
What a dick. Everyone there saw me begging the king not to mark me, they saw me screaming in pain when he put his mark over Emanuel’s.
He was just saying these things to antagonize me, to get a rise out of me and I wouldn’t let him win.
Even though it wasn’t in my nature to shut up and bow down, it felt like I hadn’t done much else in this latest part of my life.
I was always the one who got in trouble for not shutting up, for biting my tongue in the presence of arrogant men or rude women. What happened to the girl that bit back and wouldn’t take anyone’s shit?
The amount of times I got cleaning duty at the gym back home because I protected my sister or spoke against the teachers was ridiculous and yet here ! stood, in front of Alpha Dom and my tongue twisted in fear of being punished.
I felt my eyes narrowing to slits and I clenched my fist while taking a step towards him.
“Let me go or I swear to the gods I will call over the king and have him rip your head from your body and shove it up your ass. I’ll make sure your face is sticking out with your eyes wide open so that when your pack members see you for the last time, they can all spit in your face which I’m sure they’ve all thought about doing,”
The sinister shift in his dark eyes lifted the anger to the surface and it tortured him because he couldn’t act on it.
One wrong move and he was dead.
Everyone here knew whose house they were in, even someone as intellectually impaired and sinister as Dom knew where he was, and that small part of me that carried the darkness I so often pretended I didn’t have tingled from watching the fear flash in his eyes. It was a power I hadn’t felt, knowing I could snap my fingers and have a man killed.
What am I doing…
Dom loosened his grip on my wrist and I pulled it back, watching him and wondering where the hell I went wrong. Something was slowly consuming me, filling my body with a tingling sensation, like a black fog that ran through my veins and devoured my soul little by little.
I hurried away from them and scanned the room looking for Abby.
She was over by the refreshment station and I had to fight my way through the crowd to get to her. Everyone seemed eager to meet the new Bell and the girls were easy to spot seeing as they were the least covered people here. Abby’s dress covered her breasts and lower body while showing her sculpted core. The men were drooling and undressing her with their eyes while Abby was racking up business and nonchalantly brushing off the vicious glares of the women whose voices wouldn’t amount to much in this context. Many of the women here either married for money and power, or else they had been prey in the Hunt and had been marked by an Alpha at some point in their life.
Abby lifted her head, the beaming smile dimmed like the sun covered by rain-filled clouds when she saw me and she walked alongside the wall and disappeared in the crowd.
Everything felt off, everyone was treating me like an alien all of a sudden- as though I was someone they had to be afraid of.
I wasn’t. They were safe with me.
I spotted her crystal pins in that blonde hair and hurried after her into the hallway.
I lifted the bottom of my dress and cursed the heels as I ran down the long corridor but had to stop every few meters to sniff her out and see where she’d
taken off.
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The Alpha’s Hunt
