Scarlett (Second Edition) by Karima Saad Usman novel Chapter 102

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Scarlett

Chapter 102

Clay’s POV

I felt like I was losing my mind. Rage boiled inside me, hot and uncontrollable, consuming every logical thought. I couldn’t rein it in, and neither could my wolf.

How had we let it come to this? How had we allowed things to spisal so far out of control? I had been ready to go rogue, to tear through the Elders and make them see sense by force if I had to. I would have wiped them out, if it meant Scarlett could be accepted. But Lucian and Maxwell insisted on diplomacy, on being patient. They wanted to clear her name, to make the people love her.

And look where that naive plan got us.

When I saw the guards pulling her clothes from her body, stripping her dignity away as if she were nothing, I could hardly bear to look. And to find out they hadn’t been feeding her? They were starving her.

We had given strict orders for her to receive the same meals as us, three times a day. But they ignored us. They starved her, tortured her, while we were off hunting down that snake, Gregory. We had been so focused on his elusive trail that we didn’t even see what was happening to her.

I clenched my fists, barely containing the fury ripping through me. The truth was clear: we’d failed her. I had failed her.

“Clay, you need to calm down,” Maxwell said, his voice strained. “Your eyes… they’re red.” But I could hear the tremor in his voice–he wasn’t calm, either. How could he be? Scarlett was out there, alone and vulnerable, and anything could happen to her. She was too kind, too trusting for this world, and it terrified me to think of her facing it on her own.

My control snapped. I turned on Maxwell, slamming him against the wall with all the force I could muster. “You should have backed me up, Maxwell!” 1 shouted, rage twisting my

words. “You should have come with me and taken those damn Elders down. You should have been by my side!”

Lucian tried to pull me back, but my anger had a target now, and I swung, my fist connecting with his jaw. The satisfaction of the hit was fleeting, but it fueled my anger, tearing me apart from the inside out.

“This is your fault, Lucian,” I snarled, my voice breaking with the weight of it all. “You invited that bastard here. It was your pack that conspired against her,

your people that alerted the Elders. You call yourself an Alpha? You’re a joke.”

Lucian’s face crumpled, his shoulders slumping as the weight of my words crashed over him. Tears began to spill down his cheeks, and he fell to his knees,

his head bowed. His anguish was raw, painfully visible, but it did nothing to ease my own agony.

We had all failed her–each in our own way. We’d let her down, betrayed her, allowed her to be broken and cast out. And now she was alone, lost in a world that would sooner destroy her than give her a chance. And for all our strength, for all our titles and supposed power, we couldn’t change a single thing.

“Don’t you think I know that?” Lucian’s voice cracked, raw with guilt. “This is all my fault.”

Seeing him like that, utterly defeated, only stoked my anger further. I couldn’t stand the sight of him crumbling under the weight of his remorse. Without another word, I stormed out of the rocin, my mind seething with only one goal: Tasha and Timothy. They were the ones responsible. They had to be the ones who ordered her starvation, who made sure Scarlett suffered. It was their fault, and I was going to make them pay.

“Where are you going, Clay?” Maxwell’s voice called from behind, and I heard his hurried footsteps as he caught up with me. But i knew exactly where I was

headed.

I reached the doors, stepping out into the open, and felt every eye in the area snap to me. I could feel the terror in their states, hear the whispers ripple through the crowd as they saw the red in my eyes. They knew what that meant–anyone who got in my way could die. Right now, that didn’t bother me. Let

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fbem fear me bet them understand the depths of their failure.

But Maxwell’s grip closed around my shoulders, pulling me back, his voice steady despite the tension between us. “We’ll waste too much time of we guy drewys this path. We need to find Elsa first he’s the only one who can tell us where Scarlett is.”

I gritted my teeth, fighting against his hold. “I don’t care if Scarlett burns the entire North down. When we find her, I’m bringing her home And anyone who can’t accept a Vladislav as Luna can get out.” spake the words aloud, letting my voice carry, and I sent the message through the pack link, making sure every member heard. I didn’t care if I turned into a monster for Scarlett’s sake. If that was what it took to have her safe, then so be it.

Maxwell nodded, acknowledging my determination. “Come on,” he said, motioning toward the jeep parked outside. He opened the back door for me, and i climbed in. Lucian was already in the passenger seat, his face pale, his eyes hollow, as Maxwell got into the driver’s seat. With one last look at the pack members staring in fear, Maxwell revved the engine, and we took off.

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Michele Gremillion

3 angry alphas don’t make for a happy pack.

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