From Rejected Luna To Lycan Queen (Eloise and Edward) novel Chapter 318

Chapter 318 Guilt

Chapter 318 Guilt

DAMON

She’s still alive.

Gently, so gently, I stroke her hair.

“Mama.”

Her lids flutter.

“Call an ambulance!” I shout.

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“On it.” Seb’s voice surprises me and I look up to see him entering the house. “Go secure the property.” He tells the men gathered by the door, and I see that he brought a fleet with him.

Seb’s phone is in his hand when he comes to kneel next to Eloise.

His hand touches my shoulder. “I’ve got her. Now go finish it before your dog’s forced to.”

Berth.

Trusting Eloise to Seb, I stand.

Even with our dog on top of him, snapping at his hands when he tries to push him away, Berth tries to crabwalk back up the stairs.

Maybe it was the sight of us that finally scared him enough to try to flee.

But he shouldn’t be scared of him. He should be scared of me. Because I’m the one who’s about to kill him.

“Release!” I call out the command to him, as I’m already closing the distance on my prey. He jumps off of Berth, but before he can so much as move, I take his place, leaping up the final steps and straddling Berth’s chest.

“You killed my entire family!” he screams up at me.

“Not yet.”

Then I strike him.

With all of my fucking strength, and rage, I punch him.

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Over and over. I hit him.

As hard as I fucking can, I strike him for daring to come after me.

For daring to touch my wife.

For hurting my wife.

For causing her to scream and cry in her own home.

I hit him.

I switch hands. Throwing a left hook into his already dislocated jaw.

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I punish him for what he’s done. For what he was going to do. For making me a failure.

Blood soaks my hands.

Bones give.

And I don’t stop.

I don’t stop until he’s unrecognizable.

Unrecognizable as Berth The Choke Toliver.

Unrecognizable as a man.

I don’t stop until my chest is heaving and my hands ache as much as my heart does.

Through the open front door, I can hear the sound of distant sirens.

“Would you shut the fuck up for a second?” I hear Seb snap into his phone.

And I finally sit back, looking down at what’s left of Berth’s skull.

“I don’t want Berth to disappear,” Seb explains with little patience. “And I sure as shit wouldn’t call you for that. What I want is his identity known. I want to use him for a message.” There’s a

pause.

“That if anyone tries to fuck with our women, Damon will beat them to death with his bare fucking hands.”

I flex my fists.

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He’s not wrong.

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The sirens are growing louder.

I notice low growls from our dog and finally tell him to “Settle.” I croak the word, but he still hears me, and falls silent. I reach out and pat him on the back.

“You’re a good boy.”

He lets out a chuff, then bounds past me back down the stairs.

Eloise.

A small feminine moan has me moving, climbing off the last Toliver corpse.

When I turn, I find Eloise rolling onto her back, as she lets out a pained sound.

“No,” I skip three steps on my way down to get to her. “Baby, don’t move.”

Her arm is partially lifted, and I don’t know if she’s trying to sit up, but if she is, I want to stop her. So I reach for her.

And she flinches.

I freeze and our eyes lock.

And all I can see in hers is fear.

Her lips move, making no sound, and then her lids close and her arm drops to her chest as she loses consciousness.

The feeling I’m left with is…nothing.

An emptiness. Like everything that was once inside me is now gone.

Just like that.

Slowly. So slowly. I lower myself to the ground beside her, the stairs at my back, so I’m between her and Berth.

Our dog lies down at her other side, letting out small whines.

I want to touch her.

Need to feel her body filling with breath.

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But she… She doesn’t want me to touch her.

She’s…

I rest my forearms on my thighs, letting my hands hang.

Eloise is afraid of me.

And why shouldn’t she be?

All of this. All of it happened because of me.

How many times did she try to run from me?

But I refused because I was selfish and didn’t want her to leave me.

My head drops and I stare down at my hands.

They’re covered in death. Literally stained red.

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Her perfect little body running down the hall. The unexpected worry slammed into me when she slipped on the stairs. The pain of landing ass-first on the steps to catch her. The feeling of her in my lap, submitting. Curves pressing into me everywhere we touched.

But you didn’t catch her this time.

Because this time you weren’t there.

And this time, she flinched.

Red and blue flashing lights reflect off the walls.

“She’s gonna be alright.” Seb using a reassuring tone does absolutely nothing to reassure me. “She will.” He tells me again then gestures toward the driveway that’s quickly filling up. “I’ll head that off.”

But she’s not gonna be alright.

Not while she’s with me.

That emptiness inside me expands and it’s too much for me to deal with.

She’s not awake, so she doesn’t have to know…

I reach out, resting my hand lightly on her thigh. Her sleep shorts soft under my sticky palm.

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make it right. Eloise,” I promise in words just for her.

st keeps filling with breath, but her eyes stay closed.

m.” I tell our dog. He lifts his head, but doesn’t move. “Bedroom,” I say it firmer this

tell he doesn’t want to leave her, but he follows his command, disappearing up the stairs Seb comes back inside, with a couple of paramedics at his back.

I can’t have anyone saying our dog is dangerous. I can’t lose him, too.

“Over here,” I call out, my voice sounding weak.

The two medics start in my direction. “Can we get some more light in here?” one of them asks.

I hadn’t even noticed the thick darkness still around us. The only light currently coming in is from outside.

“I got it,” Seb says before flipping on the main lights.

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