Chapter 35

"Inez "

"Look," she said, raising her hands in the air and sighed. She knew what he was going to say that the things she had done had consequences and since Inez was daring enough to commit such heinous crimes, she should have been prepared for such retaliation.

Inez knew these words by heart. She had listened to them for three years and was now so used to them that she even started to wonder if she had truly committed a heinous crime. Did she hit her head and forget about it? If not for the Scarlet telling her that nothing like that happened, she would have totally doubted herself.

How could she commit a crime that she had no idea of but the entire pack seemed to be convinced of it?

Inez was not sure of it and she was not even willing to ponder it anymore.

"You had three years of fun, didn t you? I might not like to admit it, but you have crushed my soul, and my confidence and taken my wolf from me in the matter of just three years. You have basically turned me into a handicap," she said bitterly. "I think this is enough. I am not asking you to take me back; I can t and I won t. So can you all leave me me alone?"

"You have some nerve saying those words," Blake laughed out loud. He was not a cold person like Dominic but he was dangerous; there was just something about him which made Inez wary of him. He didn t speak much but when he did, he cut to the chase. "After taking the most precious thing away from Dom, you dare to look us in the eye and ask us to leave you alone "

"Then kill me."

"What?"

That threw him off his high horse. Well good.

"I said kill me," Inez repeated. Her eyes were firm as she stared coldly at the man. Just because she hadn t lost her mind, doesn t mean that she was not losing it. Her wolf was yet to return; all her hard work and credit had been taken away from her and her mother wanted nothing more than for her to become a puppet in the hands of the four strongest dominant men of the pack.

With her arms crossed in front of her, she looked at Blake and repeated, "Kill me; you have taken everything away from me. My friends are not my friends. My pack is a living hell for me and even my home was not left untouched. I feel like I have a noose tied around my neck that is suffocating me slowly."

"Compared to that, I would rather have my breath cut off in a second."

"Do you think I dare not do it?" Blake asked with a sneer.

"Oh, no, you will do it," Inez stated without any sign of fear in her eyes. Because honestly, she felt dead. After going through the bone-chilling pain yesterday, she could no longer function as a normal shifter anymore.

After the loss of her wolf, Inez felt as if she had lost a part of her soul.

She had called and begged Nia but she had never responded to her, which made her wonder if her wolf had also abandoned her. Her presence was so light that it was hard to trace.

She blinked her eyes and stated in a low voice, "You will do it because you all fear nothing. I am weak with my mother worrying more about her darling son instead of me. I have no one to protect me. I am weak and unable to retaliate, so of course you will deal with me in ways that you like."

Inez hardly finished speaking when Blake raised his hand and curled his fingers around her throat. She could feel him almost crushing her windpipes and vocal cords with his strength and the sharp claws that were digging into her skin.

But she didn t beg for her life. Even when dark spots started to dance in front of her eyes and her breathing turned shallow, she stayed calm and composed. Maybe tonight she would get her liberation one way or another.

Blake was waiting for Inez to break and beg him to let him off. He wanted to prove to her that there was still enough life and hope left in her for them to shatter but even when Inez s face turned blue due to the suffocation, the woman didn t beg him.

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A sense of helplessness and anger surged in his heart and he threw Inez on the ground like a discarded piece of tissue.

"Cough, cough..." Inez sputtered and coughed as she gasped for air. Twisting her head slightly upwards, she curled her lips and questioned, "Whats wrong? Can t find the will to kill me? Feeling merciful all of a sudden?" She scoffed and stated, "I don t need it. Not anymore. So if you want to kill me, you better do it tonight, Blake. If not, you might not get another chance again."

Blake stared at her. His cold stare burned into her skin, and it hurt. It was heart breaking when she thought about how their once beautiful relationship had been changed and turned into something so

Inez had no words to explain the current situation. She knew it was fucked up but somewhere she knew that it was even worse than that.

"You are not allowed to leave the pack."

Inez snapped out of her thoughts and scrambled to her feet. She stared at the man in front of her and asked, "What was that?"

"It s the alpha s orders," Blake spoke as if it made all the sense in the world. "You are supposed to stay in the territory until the ban is lifted."

"You cannot just ground me!" Inez was furious. She had finally summoned enough courage to get out of this pack and she wanted to do it before her heart changed or before she ended up getting soft-hearted.

And Inez knew that Dominic somewhere had a tentative idea of what she wanted to do; thus, he initiated this ban.