Fated To Three Betrayed By All Until She Rose (Leilani) by Ahvahh novel Chapter 8

Chapter 8: An unknown.

Leilani.

The silence that passed between us as soon as my words came out was deafening. I wrung my fingers together, silently praying that they would leave me alone now... that after this, we will all count our losses and go our separate ways. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

—At least that was what I wanted for them... for Chalice. For myself.

But I was wrong.

My mother was the most stunned of all of them. And then—

*Crack*

"You ungrateful bitch!" She yelled as she slapped me hard across the face. "After everything we’ve done for you, this is how you repay us?!"

I wanted to ask her what they’ve done for me since I was six besides ruining my confidence and making a mockery of me, but I didn’t. Instead, I bowed my head and closed my eyes, ignoring the feel of their eyes drilling holes into my skin and the growing agitation in the air.

"You’d go this far just to show how hateful and jealous you are of your sister? Unbelievable!"

My tears made my eyes sting. My cheeks hurt from being smacked so hard. My head felt heavy too, but I managed to remain upright. Until my father snarled;

"I don’t care if you want to cut ties with us." He seethed. "In fact, I don’t care about anything concerning you at all. But first, you’ll have to be punished for everything you’ve done. You’ll be punished for killing your grandmother—"

"Have I not been punished enough for that already?!" I snapped, interrupting him as flashes of the several times I was whipped in the past two days fleeted across my mind.

His palm connecting with my face was the last thing I saw before immense pain exploded on my left cheek, busting my lips in the process. I fell into the bed, this time, not bothering to hide the tears as they streaked down my face.

My father scowled. "No. No punishment is enough for a hateful loser such as you." He seethed. "You need death! You deserve that!"

For a very brief moment, my eyes snagged on Chalice to find her smiling at me, her face a mask of self-satisfaction. She grinned subtly before turning to father, and then she whispered;

"Daddy, she’s suffered enough. Just look at her! So please..."

"She’s this spoiled because you coddle her too much!" This time it was Gavin who bit out. "And she’ll keep committing these petty crimes if we don’t do anything about her."

"You call her crimes petty?" Father snarled. "She killed my mother! She invited rogues into the pack! That’s murder and treason. Crimes that should be punished with death!"

As soon as his words slipped out, my breath hitched. A meaningful silence settled in the room, and then suddenly, father’s eyes twinkled with malicious delight.

"I’ve disowned her. She’s even gotten emancipation documents to cut ties with us. So she’s not a part of us anymore."

"Malakai... what do you mean?" My mom voiced out, her voice shaky with unbridled fear.

I doubled over as if visibly hurt, squeezing my eyes to block out the painful sight in front of me. My mates were in this room. They were watching. They weren’t doing anything.

"Guards!" My head whipped up when I heard Caelum speak suddenly, and at the sound of his voice, two guards rushed into the room. "Take her away." He said, "Make sure she’s whipped ten times for hurting Chalice, twenty times for hurting her grandmother and an additional fifty times with the hot whip for committing treason."

"Also, make the female slaves parade her around the pack house when you’re done. Make sure everyone knows what stuff she’s made of and the crimes she committed." Kael added, and if I was hurt before, then I was definitely destroyed now.

"I didn’t do anything." I cried out again, my voice thick with pain and anguish. "I really didn’t. How can I prove my innocence to you?"

"So you’re saying that grandma pushed herself down the stairs? And that the chat on your phone was fake?" Gavin snarled, coming to smack my forehead so hard that my vision waned for a nanosecond.

I shrunk back but didn’t back down. "I swear, I didn’t. I would never."

"She’s so stubborn. Take her away!" My father seethed and with that, the guards rushed over.

A choked sob slipped past my lips as the guards forcefully looped their arms around mine. And right before my family and mates, they dragged me off to the unknown.

Oh, and I almost forgot. Chalice, the spiteful bitch, couldn’t hide her pleased grin as they dragged me away.

And I couldn’t help but wonder how no one else besides me saw it.