I grabbed the silver bracelets on my wrists, shaking them off.
“And what do you think about that? That I’m tainting your bloodline? Or are you going to admit to the room that Caspian would rather hire a whore than follow your orders?”
As soon as I said ‘whore’, I slammed the bracelets onto the table, sending another glass flying.
I reached up to unclasp the necklace. “What do you think?” I said to the room. “Do you seriously want to mate with a pack who’s going to treat you like that!?” I smashed the jewels onto the table next to the bracelets.
“If they are going to hire me for this, what else will they do behind your back when you’re bonded?”
Another snarl ripped from me as I dropped the earrings onto my empty plate with a clatter.
Just thinking about how Caspian fucked me in front of Kai when he was out of control fired my anger. How Sin led me off to have sex with him while Kai got drunk and cried in the garden. How I was such a spineless wimp that I let them hurl all kinds of abuse at me, and I never once asked them for an apology because I didn’t believe I deserved better.
I grabbed the straps of my dress, pushing them over my shoulders.
“What are you doing?” Sin’s mum gasped as I pulled my arms through them and dragged them down, exposing my white bra.
“How could you even be worthy of my son when you can’t even tell the real value of a dress?”
“Twenty-five grand is cheap compared to what people pay for me. You don’t think your son would pay for any old whore, would they?” I stood straight, throwing out one arm to show off the purple and red marks that scattered my body like wounded stars.
“You see these?” I pointed to the bites on my chest that they had deliberately been ignoring. “These are all proofs of payment. You only get bites from the top-paying guests, so how much money do you think I’ve earned by letting all these alphas bite me?” I shouted, shoving my dress over my thighs to expose my hips and my thong.
I didn’t want to look at Kai when I said that, but I still met his gaze. His anger was as fierce as mine, but it wasn’t directed at me.
Caspian shook beside him, and Sin’s expression stayed neutral as pain tugged at my heart.
I wanted them next to me, but I was too furious to even call their names.
“How uncouth,” Zania said, her upper lip curling as I revealed even more bites.
“You don’t get to be the one who tells me how to behave right now!” I yelled as I kicked the dress away.
I stood in front of the entire room in my underwear, trying to hold myself together because I wanted to launch myself at her and strangle the woman sneering at me.
It wasn’t just what she’d done to me, or Kai, or even Caspian and Sin. It was that I knew she’d treated everyone in her life like that, and they let her get away with it just because she had money.
Another snarl tore through me as Caspian and Sin rattled in our bond, too. Their power was so intense that it burned through Kai and churned in me. My eyes nearly rolled at feeling them inside me, and I grabbed my breasts through my bra, shaking them as I growled at her. “I won’t show you these, because they are way outside of your fucking price range. No matter how many of those little cheques you write.”
I kicked my chair away, and it clattered to the floor. I slammed my palm against the table, satisfied with the way all of them flinched—Zania, Vivian, and their alphas.
“And the jokes on you,” I growled as I jabbed the scar that slashed across my stomach. “I can’t even have fucking children. So, fuck you.” I thrust my fist out, giving her the finger before spinning to the room. “Fuck all of you. You can have your stupidparties and your fucking pure bloodlines. You’re fucking crazy. All of you.”
I kicked the leg of the table, sending the last of the glasses flying as I stormed through the room.
All eyes on me.
And not a single person followed me.
Kai, Sin, and Caspian sat there, watching me go like I hadn’t been part of their lives at all. Like everything we’d done together and been for each other didn’t make a shred of difference in the end.
I hated it. It hurt so much that tears slipped from me as I kept my head held high.
I refused to look back. I wouldn’t give any of them a chance. It didn’t matter if Kai’s longing and their emotions brushed me as I swept past them.
I thought I could craft a master plan that would let me get revenge on Zania for destroying my nest and forcing me out of my home, but I was stupid to think I had any way to beat her. It was always about power, and this was the best I could do.
I had paid off Mum’s health care, I’d sorted the debts. And I still had enough money to disappear to another country by myself, exactly like Zania wanted.
