Love's Unexpected Awakening Elowen's Choice novel Chapter 169

Chapter 169 Public Reckoning

The look on Daphne’s face was painfully familiar.

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Elowen let out a cold laugh. “That’s interesting. You twisted your left ankle just now. I kicked your right one. So why are you crying?”

Daphne’s sob caught in her throat. “I… I did twist my left ankle, but Your Grace kicked so hard my right one hurts too.”

“So hard?”

Elowen lifted a brow. She stepped forward and drove her foot straight into Daphne’s ankle again.

Her knee had stopped aching. She could put real force behind it now.

This time she did not hold back.

Daphne froze for half a second, then shrieked. Tears flooded her eyes instantly.

That did it. Elowen could tell this time the pain was real.

Alaric frowned, though the corner of his mouth curved up in spite of himself. “What exactly are you doing?”

He had known it. Elowen still cared.

The second he helped Daphne up gently, Elowen lost control. She could not hide it

anymore.

She just lashed out, didn’t she?

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Still, Alaric was not about to let her off easy. He put on a stern look. “You’re always picking on Daphne. Can’t you stand her?”

“Not just her,” Elowen said evenly. Her gaze shifted to him. “I can’t stand you either.”

Before he could react, she swung her leg and kicked him square in the knee. Harder than she had kicked Daphne.

Even so, it was nothing compared to the injury she had taken for him years ago.

After that incident, whether in the past life she remembered or this one, he had never shown a shred of gratitude. Instead, he kept showing up just to make her sick.

And today, with no attendants around, he still had to provoke her.

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What did he expect?

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She was not some helpless girl who only knew how to swallow insults. Back then she had no one backing her up. This time was different.

“Elowen!”

Alaric sucked in a breath through his teeth, fury flashing across his face. He forgot all about formalities. “You dare lay a hand on me?”

Elowen did not look the least bit shaken. “So what if I did? Go ahead and complain. I won’t admit to anything. Let’s see who believes you.”

She felt light and satisfied as she turned to leave

“Stop right there!” Alaric barked.

Ignoring the sharp pain in his knee, he pushed himself up and lunged for her arm.

But after what happened at the garrison, Elowen had been on guard the whole time. The second he reached for her, she pivoted sideways and slipped out of his grasp.

He grabbed nothing but air.

Off balance, he crashed down onto both knees with a heavy thud. A sharp bolt of pain shot up his leg, twisting his handsome features.

Elowen looked back and burst out laughing. “Serves you right.”

Then suddenly she felt something strange. On instinct, she looked up.

Not far away, beneath a canopy of tangled garden branches, Cassian sat alone in his wheelchair. The late sun slanted across him.

He watched them with an unreadable calm, almost amused, as if he had front-row seats to a very entertaining show.

The laughter died on her lips. Her stomach dropped. She lowered her gaze at once, not daring to meet his eyes.

When she was bullied and fought back, Cassian would stand behind her. That did not mean she could go around starting fights.

And no matter what, Alaric was still his nephew. He must have seen that kick. He probably thought she was wild and unreasonable.

After all, men preferred gentle, sweet women.

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Chapter 169 Public Reckoning

Alaric forced himself upright and offered a stiff bow in Cassian’s direction. “Uncle.”

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