Fated to the Alpha Who Killed Me (by Sherry) novel Chapter 243

Chapter 243

“Please do, I replied, allowing the best edge of satisfaction to color my tone. I’ve already published everything online. You’re welcome to sue me if you

think you can win.”

“No!! The word tore from Celeste’s throat, genuine terror flooding her features. She stumbled toward Daemon, her gued hand clutching at his sleeve as tears spilled down her cheeks. “Daemon, you still believe me, do you? Give me time to clear my name—please! You can’t let this information spread! You have to help me stop it!

Darmon looked down at Celeste’s fingers wrapped around his arm, watched her face contort with desperate teaks. Then, with deliberate precision, he pried her hands away from him, his touch cold and impersonal. Before anyone could react, his hand shot out and closed around her throat, lifting her slightly before hurling her away from him. Celeste hit the polished floor hard, the impact driving the air from her lungs in a choked gasp.

Ruby screamed, throwing herself between Daemon and her daughter while Mason scrambled to help Celeste sit up. The girl was coughing and wheezing, one hand pressed to her abused throat, but her eyes remained locked on Daemon with wounded disbelief. “Daemon… you tried to…”

“Alpha!” Ruby was sobbing now, kneeling with her hands clasped in supplication. “Please, my daughter made mistakes–she was confused, she didn’t mean it! You used to care for her so much! Please, have mercy!”

Ruby I said quietly, my voice level and almost conversational. “Your daughter tried to kill me. She murdered my unborn child. And instead of disciplining her properly, you’re here begging for forgiveness based on Daemon’s former affection?” I let out a soft, bitter laugh. “After stealing my phone, did you really think you could sleep soundly? That destroying evidence would make everything disappear?”

Ruby’s desperate gaze swung to me, and I watched realization dawn across her feature’s. I was the one she should have been begging all along. She grabbed Celeste’s arm roughly, dragging the girl forward until they both knelt before me. Then, in a gesture that made my stomach turn, Ruby seized my hand and forced it to strike Celeste’s tear–stained face.

“Miss Goldcrest, please! It’s all my daughter’s fault! Hit her–punish her however you want! She has a heart condition, we’ve always been too afraid to upset her!” Ruby’s voice climbed toward hysteria. “We’ve failed her by being too soft! Beat her to death if you want! It’s what she deserves!”

“Stop it!” Mason lurched forward to pull his wife away, his face twisted with anguish as he turned on Daemon. “Alpha, wasn’t it you who pursued my daughter in the first place? You already had Violet–why did you lead Celeste on?”

Celeste knelt before me with her face ashen and her eyes burning with barely suppressed hatred. The innocent mask had finally shattered completely, and what remained underneath was raw and venomous.

“Enough!” Daemon’s patience snapped entirely. His expression had progressed beyond anger into something colder and more frightensig, his eyes rimmed with red from the force of his fury. “Celeste, if it weren’t for Aurora’s heart–if it weren’t for that debt–we would have bees tinßhed the moment I sent you to Silver Ridge University. You know exactly why I continued helping you, protecting you, maintaining that façade. And you dared to harm my child?

Of course Celeste had known the truth from the beginning She’d understood that Daemon’s attention stemmed from obligation rather than affection, Trosa his complicated grief over Aurora rather than genuine feelings. But she’d resisted acknowledging it, had worked to bury that knowledge and crait an alternative narrative. The rumors about Daemon’s devotion to her would have been devastated by the revelation that she was merely a living memorial to his first love.

Ruby and Mason exchanged confused glances, clearly heating this information for the first time Celeste. Mason sand slowly, who is Aurera‘

“The original owner of that heart beating in your daughter & chest, I supplied, my tome flat and factual Daemon’s first real love Aurora Winters And Celeste has known since the beginning she even met Autora’s family

Ruby’s hand flew to her mouth, her eyes going wide No I didn’t

I only knew that the year after her surgery, someone came to our house they talked tor

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trile, jell some photos and things, then went away…

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“That was Aurora’s mother, I confirmed. Bringing mementos of her dead daughter to the girl wearing her heart.”

‘Stop talking!” Celeste’s scream cut through the lounge, raw and anguished as she clapped her hands over her ears. You want to drive me to suicide, is that it? Fine! I’ll do it right now!”

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