Leilani.
"Leilani is leaving. I overheard her talking to someone on the phone."
"And do you now eavesdrop on my conversations too, besides making my life miserable?" I snapped, something like anger twisting in my guts.
For years, I hoped that they would talk to me. Many nights, I prayed to the moon goddess that they would one day look at me. But they never did because they were so blinded by their love for Chalice that they lost all sense of reasoning.
And now this?
They were acting like I had betrayed them by wanting something better for myself? For leaving?
I shook my head. "It’s none of your business."
I saw Zevran freeze before Kael closed the distance between us, his fingers wrapping around my neck as he glared down at me in irritation. "You won’t talk to us like that. Do you understand?"
My eyes instantly watered and my throat clamped shut as his hand closed around my windpipe, cutting the flow of air down to my lungs.
And from his vantage, I saw nothing but hatred in his eyes.
A deep rooted hatred that chilled my bones.
"You hate me." I simply rasped out, but he didn’t respond, as if to confirm my words. "But I never did anything to you."
"You don’t have to do anything to us for us to hate you," now, it was Caelum who snapped from behind Kael, "...we see how hateful you are toward your twin sister, and we’d rather die than mate with a wolfless hateful bitch such as you."
That stung.
It stung so hard.
"You think I’m the hateful one?" I laughed incredulously, "then wait until you see how bitchy your Chalice can be when no one’s watching!"
Zevran scoffed. "Says the wench who tried to kill her twin sister twice, and then successfully murdered her grandmother!"
Oh, that was the height of it!
I blinked back my tears and bit down on Kael’s hand, causing him to let out a choked gasp before letting go of me so fast that I stumbled and hit my head against the cupboard behind me.
The pain shot through my skull like a million needles and I cried out, holding the back of my head as tears blurred my vision.
"She’s not going anywhere." Caelum finally said so surely, one would think he was telling something as certain as the weather. "She only said that to get your attention, and she did."
Oh, you stupid idiots!
"Get out." I groaned, feeling the warm liquid begin to trickle down my skull and my vision go blurry. "Get out of my room now!"
Someone else rushed into my room at the sound of my screaming and I didn’t need to look up to know that it was Chalice. She cast me a dark look once before looking up at the triplets, and with the sweetest most annoying voice I’ve ever heard on her, she drawled;
"Y’all, let Leilani be. She’s still feeling so bad about grandma’s death. Don’t disturb her!"
Her feigned care, the way their expressions shifted at once as soon as she entered... and the way my heart squeezed in pain when Kael brought her hand to his lips with the same hand he’d used to choke me moments ago brought fresh tears to my eyes.
I growled; "GET OUT!"
But my voice was droned out by the chaos happening outside. Screams and cries flitted into the room as people rushed about in panic.
"Rogues!" Someone screamed from outside, "the pack’s under attack! There are rogues everywhere!

My head was spinning, my body was trembling. No they cannot do this to me. They should not do this to me.
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