Chapter 434
Chapter 434:
“What is wrong with you?” Kain demanded, his voice a rough, gravelly command that brooked no evasion.
Being wrapped in his scent, feeling the heat of his body — it was too much. The dam broke.
“I’m exactly what they say I am!” I cried out, my voice cracking as I pushed weakly against his chest. Tears spilled over my lashes, hot and humiliating. “Chloe Monroe cornered me today. She called me a wolfless ornament! And when you step in to ‘help’ me with my Pack’s business, you just prove them right. You make me feel like a pathetic, kept woman p>
Kain froze.
Through our Mate-bond, a wave of pure, icy terror washed over me — not my terror, but his absolute, murderous rage. His Lycan was roaring, a deafening sound in my mind. The temperature in the room seemed to plummet as his eyes darkened to pitch black.
He didn’t argue. He didn’t offer empty platitudes. Instead, Kain’s arms wrapped around me like a vice, crushing me against him as if trying to absorb my pain into his own skin.
“I will tear her apart,” Kain vowed, his voice a lethal, freezing whisper that promised absolute destruction to anyone who dared hurt me. He buried his face in my neck, inhaling my scent to calm his violent beast. “You are my Queen, Adelina. My equal. Taking what is mine, using my power — it is your absolute right p>
Before I could process the raw devotion in his words, Kain swept me off my feet, cradling me against his chest. He carried me out of the den and toward the master bedroom, his steady heartbeat against my cheek silencing the lingering doubts in my mind.
Carmella Golden POV
The exhaustion in my bones was a heavy, suffocating weight. But unlike Adelina finding solace in her Mate’s arms, I returned to my Chelsea apartment completely alone, my mind reeling from a primal, biological panic. Leaving little Jaxon’s hospital bed at Mt. Sinai felt like tearing a piece of my own soul away.
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I had barely locked the heavy wooden door when a frantic, violent pounding echoed through the hallway.
Before I could check the security monitor, the deadbolt clicked — he had a spare key. Ferris Hawthorne burst into my living room like a hurricane of panic. His Beta scent hit me instantly, reeking of rancid, sour fear.
“What the hell are you doing, Carmella?” Ferris snarled, his fingers wrapping brutally around my wrist. “My contacts at the hospital said you spent the entire night with Senator Grant Blackwell and his bastard pup p>
“Let go of me!” I yanked my arm back, my wolfless body trembling with sudden, protective rage. “Jaxon is a sick child, Ferris. Don’t you ever call him that p>
“You don’t understand!” Ferris’s eyes were wide, his chest heaving as if he were being hunted. “You have to cut all ties with them immediately! If you keep digging around that Lycan family, you will bring absolute destruction down on the Hawthornes. Do you hear me? They will slaughter our entire Pack p>