Take Me Once, I'll Bleed You Twice novel Chapter 139

Chapter 139

BEATRICE

Value her life? Was he saying these Elders could decide to, what, kill her off? Beatrice looked them over not that they were all seated.

There were three women and four men. They sat in alternating seats, with a man on echer end. Beatrice wondered if heing an Elder meant cutting one’s short, as all seven of them sported the same cut. They all had varying degrees of greying hair but otherwise they looked nearly identical. Sore, a few wen old-old and others less so but, if she had to physically describe each of them, it would be difficu?’ to distinguish one from the other.

Well… except the two men with facial hair. There was fancy moustache guy and another will a full beard,

A second later, the door opened again and in walked Hendricks. He still wouldn’t look at Beatrice

not even to acknowledge her mitonce

seat two spots to her right. Tweedledick, for his part, stayed standing directly behind her chair, as if his presence would stop her from being nude feah, that was going to work.

“Now that we’re all here,” the woman named Elder Briarwood said once Hendricks had settled. “Let’s get to the matter at hand.”

The man with the full beard who sat at the far right, cleared his throat. “First, we should probably introduce ourselves, seeing as… she doesn’t know w

are

Aw, how thoughtful of him, Beatrice silently noted, using her most sarcastic inner voice.

“I am Elder Moonbow. These are Elders Blazethorn, Ashcliff, Briarwood, Amarok, Wulfastra, and Bluemoon.”

There was no way Beatrice was going to remember all those names. So long as there wasn’t a quiz, she supposed it wouldn’t matter anyway. It wasn’t they were going to stick around. After this meeting they’d probably never see one another again.

“We are here to discuss the issue of how this…” Elder Briarwood began, pausing to take a steadying breath before speaking the next word, “human is unwilling to accept her fated mate, Alpha Hendricks Bluemoon.”

Ah, yes. Because her relationship with the Alphass was everyone’s business, Beatrice reminded herself as she worked hard to prevent the rolling of her She wasn’t sure if she succeeded but the snotty old lady kept talking.

“Alpha Hendricks, I’ve been told you are hopeful that this union will work, should she chose to accept you. This is regardless of everything she’s pat

through thus far. Is that correct?”

Hendricks gave a slow nod. “Yes.”

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“Ridiculous,” Beatrice heard the one with the curly moustache mutter under his breath. Great. Either her hearing had also gotten better or the guy did

give a shit who heard his complaint.

“Elder Ashcliff,” Elder Moonbow admonished the other, who frowned.

“A human will weaken the Bluemoon bloodline. Don’t you agree, Elder Bluemoon?”

The clean shaven one at the far left let out a sigh. “It’s not for me to judge. The Moon Goddess chose this woman for my great-grand nephew and I’m about to say She made a mistake.”

Ashcliff’s frown turned into a scowl when Elder Bluemoon didn’t agree with him. He turned his attention to Beatrice, voice sharp. “What do you have for yourself, human? Speak!”

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be’d shu meng enough for her to speak she’d gladi, try his testing

Both Liders Willfestra and Amaro sorted, which sarred them tooke from the others.

“What do you have to say for yourself?” Elder Ashcliff repeated

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“Again, you need to be more specific. Say for myself about what, exactly? My choire in wardrobe: Haircut? Job? She would be best rondom but the womare next to Moonbow let out an annoyed noise. That was… Elder Blazerhorn?.

“Enough. Why are you refusing the mate bond?”

“Because I don’t want it.”

The seven Elders stared at her in silence. That couldn’t be a surprise, not after everything she 4 put the wolves through. Had they not bete tråd dorast het antics? Because she’d gladly fill them in on her greatest hits.

Elder Amarok sighed then muttered, “Humans.” In a louder voice, he said, “You are aware of what the mate bond is, right?”

“Yes.”

“And you’re still saying you don’t want it.”

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