After Rejection Divorced Luna Becomes A Famous Doctor (Hailey and Dominic) novel Chapter 177

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“I’m not your enemy, Dominic,” he said, his voice a low, strained whisper. “I’m just a messenger. I’m

here to make sure the truth comes out.”

“And what is the truth, Fenris?” I shot back, my voice rising with frustration. “Do you want to tell me

that you really think I would jeopardize my reputation and that of my pack’s by killing a human?

That I would intentionally want to start a war with the humans? If that is the truth that you want,

then you’re a fool.”

His face paled, a flicker of something, fear? guilt? in his eyes. He looked away, his gaze returning to the forest outside the window. He was hiding something, I was sure of it. And I was going to find

out what it was.

“I’m not a fool, Dominic,” he said, his voice barely audible. “I’m just a realist. I know how the world works. I know how the Council works. They want a scapegoat, and you’re the easiest target. I’m trying to help you, in my own way.”

“Helping me?” I scoffed. “Is that what you call this? Invading my home, questioning my pack, treating us like criminals? That’s not help. That’s a betrayal. And it’s really a shame, Fenris. You could have been a great Alpha. You could have had a pack, a family. But you chose to be a lapdog for the humans. You chose to be a traitor.”

He flinched as if I had struck him, a pained expression on his face. For a moment, I saw the wolf he once was, a proud, powerful creature, not the broken, defeated man he was now.

“You have no idea how much I hate y’all. How much pain my own kind has cost me. If you knew about the least, you wouldn’t be here talking to me about this.” The words were a choked whisper, a confession that he hadn’t meant to make. He looked at me, his eyes filled with a pain so deep, so profound, it took my breath away. He was a broken man, a man who had lost everything, a man who was lashing out at the world, trying to make someone else feel his pain. And I couldn’t help but feel a pang of pity for him. But that pity was quickly replaced by a surge of anger. He was taking out his pain on me, on my pack. And that was something I could not forgive.

Before I could press him further, before I could pry open that old wound and see what festered beneath, Beatrice’s voice, sharp and brittle as frozen leaves, cut through the tension.

“Fenris. Dominic. Cease this posturing. We have work to do.”

“We are getting the autopsy report of Adrian now, Dominic,” Beatrice said, her lips curling into a thin, triumphant smile. “Mr. Davies is on the line with the mainland morgue. Shall we join them?” A knot of dread tightened in my stomach. The autopsy. The beginning of the end, perhaps. My

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pack gathered in the living room, their faces etched with anxiety. They looked to me, their Alpha, for a strength I was rapidly draining. Giovanni stood beside me, a solid, reassuring presence, but

even he looked grim.

Mr. Davies had the call on speaker, the doctor’s voice a tiny, disembodied echo in the room.

“… signs of defensive wounds on the victim’s hands or arms,” the doctor was saying, his voice a monotone recitation of facts. “It looked like he had struggled with whoever did this. He was a fighter. He fought until the very end.”

Beatrice nodded, a look of grim satisfaction on her face. “Anything else, Doctor? Any other

evidence?”

“Yes,” the doctor said, a pause in his voice, a hesitation that made my blood run cold. “The results shows that a vampire was responsible for this, due to the lack of blood in the victim’s body. The killer was a vampire. But the vampire’s venom were more lethal, which means it was a rogue vampire who broke into the pack and killed his first victim and got stronger.” The doctor paused, letting the words sink in. “We believe that this is the work of a rogue vampire, or a vampire that has been in hibernation for a very long time. The venom is unlike anything we’ve seen before.”

A vampire.

Not Tricia.

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