Barely Breathing

"What is it, Ehren?" I asked her calmly.

Elony was to retort but I held up my hand silencing everyone who seemed to hate Ehren for disrespecting me. At the corner of my eyes, I saw Xyrus seating in his chair, eating the desert as if there's no commotion going on in front of him.

"You don't deserve him!" Ehren spat venomously at me. "He does not deserve a mate like you!"

That angered me. How dare she blame me for all of these.

"I was right after all!" She chuckled while she shook her head as if I was a joke. She pushed me on the shoulder and I stumbled a few steps.

Tash hissed, but I stopped her. I can handle myself perfectly.

"You should have died." She said bitterly.

I narrowed my eyes at her, hands clenched. She moved nearer me until our noses were almost touching. "He should have let you die that day."

at her vulgarity. How dare she say that when she doesn't know even the slightest

despise Xyrus, it was only that

to sound

by my question. She might hide it, yet all of us know

were little, Ehren, being the beta's daughter. They used to hang out a lot, however, everything changed when Xyrus and his brother, Gabbiel, found me almost dying near the pack's

nearly sixteen then, covered with dirt and my hair was matted with leaves and blood from the cuts I had after a rogue slammed my head at a boulder repeatedly. I

to discard the memories. Surely, Ehren despises

been living in the streets for years. If it was not for my pack, you

about me." I snapped,

know is enough to conclude you are a bitch and an ungrateful whore." She

of her rudeness. "I do pay my keep, and what is between Xyrus and me...it doesn't involve you. Stay out of

my arms, glaring at her. "And how dare you have the audacity