StartNovelChapter 75 Retribution and Resistance
Aubrey’s POV
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“Ah!” | gasped and pretended to stumble back in panic, allowing the Beta officers to lunge forward
and shield me..
They shifted into their wolf forms, their claws slicing through Aurelia’s flesh with sharp, wet rips.
The sound of skin tearing beneath claw was nauseatingly vivid. Aurelia shrieked, collapsing and
forced back into human form, a crumpled, blood-drenched heap on the floor.
The trial that followed was absurdly smooth. Jimmy’s testimony clearedof all suspicion. Aurelia
and Bailey, however, were thrown into cells laced with wolfsbane. As the ringleader, Aurelia was
sentenced to one hundred lashes. The whip had been soaked in wolfsbane-every strike a fiery brand
that would burn for weeks.
Before the sentence was carried out, one of the enforcers turned torespectfully and asked, “Ms.
Aubrey, do you wish to pardon her? If so, we can cancel the punishment.”
“No,” I replied coldly. Without hesitation.
1 would not forgive.
At those words, my father opened his mouth, likely to plead, but then shut it again. He had no right
to ask anything of me.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt1 didn’t watch the flogging, but Aurelia’s screams pierced through the walls like music-beautiful,
cathartic.
But it wasn’t enough.
| clenched my fists, fighting back the seething hatred surging inside me. Compared to what she and Bailey had
done to me, this was nothing.
When it was over, Aurelia was dragged out like a corpse, leaving a trail of blood across the floor. The whip had
shredded her clothing, and her back was a grotesque mess of torn skin and blackish-purple bruising- wolfsbane
coursing through her veins, poisoning every inch.
Shadowmoon Pack law was brutal but fair: those who were punished were denied wolf-healer care. It was a
deterrent, a reminder. Her wounds would fester and rot with pain for weeks, and that broughtgenuine
satisfaction.
By the t| left the security station, it was already deep into the night.
“Aubrey,” my father called out.
1 stopped.
“Chome,” he said, voice low and almost pleading. Perhaps he felt guilt for having believed the wrong
daughter all along.
Home?
That snake pit of deceit? That place where I'd been shackled, manipulated, and nearly destroyed?
“That's not my home,” | replied without looking back.
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Outside my spare building. | found myself replaying what far happened before | left the station.
Jimmy bad beggedpleaded for the to tell Alpha Henry not to tend him to the vampire lands. He claimed he
only told the ith because Henry had ordered him to
Alpha Hemy did that for me?
Suddenly. Ella’s voice shrieked in my mind. “Alpha Henry! He's under the tree!”
In the moonlight, a tall silhouette stepped out of the shadows. His dark-purple irises glinted like flbeneath
the night sky, and a faint, unreadable smile hovered at the corner of his lips.
At the sight of him, the tension in my body loosened for just a second. Something inquieted, calmed- like his
presence alone was a kind of shield.
Damn it.
I instinctively reached into my pocket, brushing my fingers over the cool metal of the wolf-fang
ring. Why did it feel like | was getting more and more tangled up in him?
This had to stop. | had to end it.
1 had to make it clear-cut it off clean.
“Alpha,” | said, voice careful, “if | told you I don’t like you anymore, that what happened today was
just a misunderstanding... what would you say?”
Strangely, those words were harder to say than Id expected.
Alpha Henry’s expression froze.
“You're joking?” His voice dropped to a dangerous rumble..
“No. | don’t joke,” | said, forcing my tone to stay steady.
His eyes darkened, the heat behind them twisting into anger, his voice low and cold:
“You're playing me?”
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