Chapter 366
Chapter 366:
“Tell me you’re having a glorious Monday,” Blake practically sang through the speaker, her citrus energy translating into pure, gossip-fueled glee. “Because Bryan Parrish is currently living in a nightmare p>
I leaned back in my chair. “What happened p>
“He just drained every hidden offshore account he had left,” Blake scoffed. “Since Kira’s crime was an attack on a White Wolf bloodline, no respectable Pack lawyer on the continent would touch her case. Bryan had to hire some sleazy, bottom-feeding attorney who usually defends Rogues. The man charged him an astronomical fee just to have Kira moved to solitary confinement, so the other inmates wouldn’t tear her apart before the trial p>
A cold, karmic peace settled over me. “She’s in solitary p>
“Yes, and apparently pacing her cell like a rabid dog,” Blake added, her tone dropping slightly. “My sources say she’s completely consumed by a psychotic vengeance. But who cares? She’s locked in a concrete box p>
“Let her rot,” I murmured, and ended the call.
I barely had a second to process the absolute ruin Kain’s power had brought down upon my abusers before my private line rang again. The caller ID made my stomach churn.
𝖫𝘢𝗍𝘦𝘀𝘁 сhаp𝘁еr𝘀 𝘰𝗻 ѕ.𝘤𝗼𝗆
I answered it.
“Adelina!” Carolyn’s hysterical shriek pierced my ear. “My cards were just declined at Hermes! Bryan called me — he filed for divorce. He took everything to pay for Kira’s lawyer. The bank is foreclosing on the house tomorrow. I have nothing. Please, you have to take me in p>
I sat in the quiet of my office, listening to the pathetic sobs of the Omega who had given birth to me. A year ago, her desperation would have manipulated me into submission. Now, I felt absolutely nothing — only a freezing, detached void.
“The day you let Kira lock me in that silver-lined vault, you stopped being my mother,” I stated, my voice as cold and hard as the marble floors of the penthouse. “You’ve made your bed, Carolyn. Now lie in it p>
“Adelina, wait p>
I ended the call and permanently blocked her number.
A profound, breathtaking sense of liberation washed over me. The final, rotting thread of my past had been severed and burned to ash. Yet as I stared at the blank screen, a faint, unsettling thought lingered at the back of my mind. A desperate Omega with absolutely nothing left to lose was a dangerous wildcard — and one that had just been unleashed into the shadows of the city.
Carolyn POV
The dead dial tone from Adelina’s end was a death knell. Minutes later, the heavy oak doors of the Parrish Estate slammed shut behind me. My three custom, crest-embossed suitcases were hurled out, crashing onto the rough gravel of the driveway.
Bryan’s lawyer stood safely behind the wrought-iron gates, his face devoid of pity as he slid a signed divorce decree through the bars. “You get nothing, Carolyn. Sign it, or fight a losing battle in the Continental Pack Council p>
My faded floral scent soured into a rancid stench of panic and despair. My weak Omega wolf whimpered, clawing at my chest in sheer terror.