Chapter 206
Chapter 206:
I stepped forward and tossed the silver-handled crop onto the ruined table. It landed amidst the shattered glass with a heavy, final clatter. I crossed to where Kira was cowering on the floor, weeping over her silver burns, and leaned down until my face was inches from hers.
“If she dies,” I whispered — a promise forged in the darkest depths of my soul — “you better pray the human police find you before I do p>
I didn’t wait for her to respond. I turned on my heel and walked out of the dining room, leaving the shattered illusion of their perfect family bleeding on the floor behind me.
Jase POV
𝖥і𝗻d 𝗇𝗈𝘃𝘦l 𝘗𝘋𝘍ѕ 𝘰𝗻
The heavy double doors clicked shut, severing the suffocating, freezing aura of Adelina’s White Wolf bloodline. The dining room was left in absolute ruins. The lingering scent of wild roses and a violent winter storm slowly faded, replaced by the sour stench of Bryan’s panic and the sickening smell of Kira’s burnt flesh.
Bryan shook off his paralysis. His face flushed with a desperate, hollow proxy Alpha pride. “I’m calling the police,” he stammered, his hands trembling as he tapped his phone screen. “She can’t just walk into my territory and do this. I’ll have her locked in a human cage p>
“Put the phone down, Bryan,” I growled.
I lunged forward, my hand clamping over his wrist with enough Alpha force to make his bones grind. He winced, looking up at me in shock.
“You don’t understand, Jase,” Bryan argued, his Inner Wolf whining under my dominance. “She assaulted my daughter p>
“Did you not see the weapon she used?” I snarled, my voice a low, lethal whisper. “That was solid silver. A wolfless Omega doesn’t just acquire a Lycan-grade punishment crop. Kain Blackwell authorized this. If you bring human law enforcement into a Lycan King’s execution, he won’t just bankrupt you. He will slaughter us all p>
Bryan’s face drained of all color.
“And if the Continental Pack Council finds out Kira intentionally triggered a fatal cardiac arrest in an Elder,” I continued, twisting the knife, “they will strip your titles and declare your entire bloodline Rogues. You will drag my Pack down with you. Drop the phone p>
The terrifying reality of the Lycan King’s wrath finally crushed his pathetic ego. Bryan swallowed hard, his fingers going slack. The phone clattered onto the ruined table. He had yielded, leaving me as the reluctant, disgusted protector of this sinking ship.
I turned away from him and bent down to haul Kira off the Persian rug. She sobbed hysterically, her cloying jasmine scent permanently tainted by the smell of the blistering silver burns on her arm and thigh.
Carolyn hovered nearby, wringing her hands. She didn’t look at the shattered glass or the reality of what her golden child had done. “How could she be so cruel?” Carolyn wailed, her faded floral scent souring with indignation. “She’s a monster, Jase! Look at what she did to your fiancée p>
I stopped. I looked at the former Luna, a wave of absolute, visceral disgust washing over me. I saw the deep, generational rot of the Parrish family staring back at me.
“You should have protected both of them,” I said, my voice a glacial whip.