Chapter 8
Aragon
My eyes followed Marcellus as he paced in my office with a worried look on his face. I rolled my eyes at his antics and went back to the reports I was reading.
“Please do not wear a hole in my floor,”
He scoffed and took a seat. “You made a mistake.”
I raised a brow, “What?”
“You made a mistake locking that girl in the room with no form of human interaction. Only a heartless person would do that.”
I chucked. Marcel was the only person who could give it to me straight without worrying if I would throw him in the dungeon.
He had been my best friend long before he became my beta. He was brutally honest and has stuck with me throughout the years.
1 felt disgusted at the thought of her. The girl that I wanted to punish for what her father did to my family but what I hated most about her was because I was unfortunate enough to be mated to her
I was like some kind of cruel joke the moon goddess was playing on me. Having fun at my expense. She has occupied my every thought ever since I saw her. The differem sides of her that I thought I knew were horrible
“Sheltered princess, and enabler to her father’s crimes, the side of her that the pack knew, ruthless and heartless just like her father, I didn’t know
which to believe and she wasn’t making it easy
I scowled at Marcel who was still waiting for an answer, “What are you trying to say? She will stay
there will In
I figure out a good punishment for her.”
“Why must there be one? Poor girl just lost everything and now, she has to be punished for the sins of her father too?”
Iglared at him, was he feeling sorry for her? I hope not.
“Marcel,” I said sharply.
He met my eyes, “Dou’l give me that look. It is unfair, I heard all those things they said about her but nothing about that girl screams sheltered
to me. She wasn’t liked by her father and I am sure living with him was hell for her. There is no difference between the way you are treating her now and back then in her father’s house.”
I shook my head, he was trying to make me feel guilty but I won’t have it. I was doing it to avenge my family and give them the peace that I deserved
“Why are you saying all of this?”
“No reason, I just feel if you are not going to kill or mate her then let her go. Keeping her here won’t do you any good.”
He was right. The initial plan was to kill her and get it over with but when my guards tried to help me on that front. I killed them.
I let myself believe I was angry that they touched my prisoner without permission but it was a lie. I was furious that they touched my mate. I was the only one allowed to touch her, her fate lies in my hands whether she likes it or not
I could decide to keep her here if I liked, to make her uncomfortable. She might be worse than her father after all. The bite in her words told me that she hated mr
That adoration I saw when first met her was gone and in place of it was fury that I kidnapped her, that I rejected her but not because I killed her
father.
She was almost relieved that I did. Maybe Marcel was right.
“I don’t believe any of it.
“You are my Alpha but sometimes you can be an idiot,” He leaned further with a hard look on his face. If she was being pampered like you think then why would she try to escape when her pack is being attacked? If she was showered with love then she would fight but a the first sight of trouble. she ran like she had made plans. With or without us interfering, she would have escaped”
A growl left my lips at that, the thought of not seeing her again. A dull ache settled in my chest but I pushed it away and pinned him with a stare
“You don’t believe that, it could be that she was selfish and wanted to save herself first. I don’t know why you are blind to this or are you choosing to She is worse than her father, everybody said so.”
Marcel shook his head like he was disappointed, “I think you are forgetting things now. Her father’s guards were casually discussing how to rape her They taunted her and said her father gave them permission. Was it new or a normal reoccurrence?“
1 flinched and Marcel became quiet. It was a sore subject for him since his sister was the object of the rogue’s desires before he mailed her to death.
Ton the other hand gritted my teeth at what Thad stumbled upon when I went in search of her. I used my eyes to find her but I sensed she must have taken off…
Thad gotten to the bushes when I met a group of guards smoking and discussing. I didn’t bother to engage since I knew they would be dead but
something made me hali
They were talking about the princess, how her father ambushed her with an auction. He wanted to sell off his daughter on her birthday. That was cruel but Lasstamed the princess wanted it
Chapter 8
They cackled and said the father instructed them to keep an eye on her just in case she wanted to escape and to have fun with her if they wanted to.
Disgust filled me and I promised myself to make his death as slow as possible for this act alone. It was one thing to sell off your daughter but giving her freely in your guards was an atrocity. No wonder the girl hated him
The guards demonstrated how they would take turns to tear her to pieces before making her death very painful. A growl had left my lips startling them, before I could lunge, Marcel was there ripping them apart with that unbridled anger.
The ume anger he was using to stare at me for being so obtuse
“Let her go,” Marcel said, “I mean it, you have a fiance. One that she knows and would respect since she hates you anyway. Don’t be another male that disappoints her,”
1 sighed and opened my mouth to say something when the door flew open.
