Rejected by My Alpha Now He Replaced Me with a Copycat Luna novel Chapter 104

Chapter 104

Nox’s POV

The tension running through Raven’s body eased a fraction. “Okay. I need to go out to where the wards have been placed so I can feel what’s been put into them. Then I’ll know how to strengthen them.”

“Not happening,” Asher clipped.

Raven glared daggers at him. “I like telling you you’re not going to be an asshole, but that hasn’t worked either.”

Dexter choked on a laugh and tried to cover it with a cough.

Asher sent him a dirty look. “It’s not safe. Others could be out there.”

“Then you guys can come with me. But I’m doing this.” The defiance in Raven’s tone said it was no use arguing with her.

Asher muttered something about headstrong she-wolves under his breath.

Ezra moved closer to me and Raven, his hand reaching to caress her face. His thumb traced the length of her scar, up and down, over and over, as if he could erase it. The room went quiet again. None of us were used to Ezra touching someone so easily.

“We worry about you,” he said, his voice low. “Just want you safe.”

Raven leaned into his touch. “I know,” she whispered. “But I need to help, too.”

Ezra nodded slowly. “Okay. Together.”

She let out a long breath. “No one’s saying what we’re all thinking.” She paused for a moment, seeming to gather her strength. “This could be my

father. It could be Michael.”

Energy crackled through the air like a living, breathing thing. Speaking Michael’s name out loud felt like summoning a demon from hell. Who was I kidding? I’d take the demon over the evil alpha.

“We don’t know anything yet,” Kael said, tension bleeding back into his voice. “Could be someone the Infernos paid. Could be someone under the dark mages’ control.”

There was shadowy magic out there that could put humans under the supernaturals’ control. It was the blackest of magic and came with a high price. But it was possible.

“Or, it could be Michael,” Raven said, lifting her chin.

“It could be,” Kael admitted,

“My sources are loyal,” Asher ground out. “They wouldn’t have leaked your location, even if they were in communication with Michael.”

Raven’s gaze cut to him and held. “You have no way of knowing that.”

His eyes narrowed on her, “I have years’ worth of experience with them.”

“You never know what can sway a person,” she argued.

Asher opened his mouth to speak, but Kael held up a hand to stop him. “We don’t know who it is, so we have to build a plan for every scenario.”

Raven’s fingers twisted in my tee. “He won’t stop. Not until he has me. Not until he can make an example of me.”

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That foreign energy crackled through the air again.

“Make. An. Example. Of. You?” Dexter gritted out.

Raven wouldn’t meet any of our eyes. “He can’t let someone escape him. Especially not his submissive daughter.” She spat the word submissive like a curse or a bullet. “He’ll want me back so he can torture me publicly. He’ll want to either kill me or make me wish I was dead.”

My arms tightened around her as if my hold could protect her from everything she’d already endured. I’d gotten pieces as Raven and I grew closer, but never the whole picture. I was getting it now.

“He’s the one who gave you the scars,” Kael said, his voice going cold.

Raven lifted her gaze to him, so much strength in making eye contact through her shame. “Yes. Him and his enforcers. It was a game for them: Who could leave the worst scars without killing me.”

A series of growls swept through the air, but I was the one who spoke. Because there was something I needed to know and understand to find a way to defeat the monster who called himself Raven’s father.

“Why?” I croaked, that sick feeling swirling in my gut again.

Raven let out a shuddering breath. “Because I’m submissive. Michael couldn’t stand having a weak daughter. Said he’d beat the weakness out of me.”

She pushed to her feet, breaking my hold. “But I’m not weak. Not anymore.”

And with that, she stalked out of the room, leaving the rest of us with the brutal truth of her nightmares.

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