Chapter 42: Not Giving Up!

Leo’s POV

I stood at the base of the stairs, my hands shaking so badly I had to curl them into fists just to keep control.

My wolf, Xerxes, was clawing inside me, screaming to tear the throat out of the man who had just touched what belonged to us. But I couldn’t.

So I turned my glare toward Father Lennox and Father Levi. "This is your fault," I spat in a tone I’d never dared use with them before. "You sent her out there. You practically handed her to him."

​They didn’t even blink. They ignored our anger and, without a word, turned and walked toward the office, leaving the three of us standing in the wreckage of the foyer.

Lana gave us one long look filled with pity and disappointment before she, too, turned and walked away.

​The silence that followed was suffocating.

​I looked at Liam. He was staring up the stairs, his eyes glowing with fury. Beside him, Leon looked like a ghost, his face pale and his breathing shallow.

​I looked away, the secret in my chest feeling heavy.

Scarlett was my mate. I knew the bond was the reason my heart felt like it was being ripped out of my chest, with every second she was behind that door with Ethan.

If my brothers knew I’d been hiding the fact that the "traitor’s daughter" was my fated mate for

there," Liam groaned in annoyance.

though he sounded like he wanted to vomit.

snapped, the pressure

as he looked at me, and for a second, I thought I saw a reflection of my own agony in his

his voice suddenly curious. "You’ve spent two years acting like she didn’t exist. Why

insult to our blood

was a lie—a half-truth designed

is?" Leon asked,

was so obvious by their attitude, and the thought of that made me jealous and furious.

cold. "You know what? I don’t care anymore. Scarlett is nothing to me. If Ethan wants her,

we even bothered?" Leon added before walking

​Lucky them.

To them, Scarlett was just a childhood crush, a beautiful girl they had a "thing" for before the world turned ugly. Their feelings were a

​But I couldn’t.

scraping against

weren’t her

stayed silent.

just handed her to

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