The Shattered Dawn — Harvey Price novel Chapter 134

134)They are lying

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134/They are lying.

Lilith pov

The tension in the room thickened.

I frowned as everything spiraled further out of control.

So he really knew about the attack and didn’t help?

Could it really be that he-

I shook my head.

There was no way Kael could have committed treason or sided with the rogues.

I knew him.

Kael could be many things, a cheater, an idiot, a people-pleaser but he wasn’t evil.

Even though he didn’t love me, even though he cheated on me with his mate and turned out to be gay in the end, he had still been there for me when my father died. He couldn’t side with something so vile.

Just as my mind struggled to process everything happening, a sharp, high-pitched voice sliced through the air, loud and filled with fury. I didn’t even need to look to know who it was.

“Liar! The bastard is lying, Alphas!”

Everyone turned toward Seraphina as she screamed, still hiding behind Kael. Her face was pale, her eyes wild as they darted from the cab driver to me before she pointed a trembling finger in my direction.

“Alphas, they’re both lying! We didn’t receive any note. Kael didn’t know the pack was under attack. Yes, this bitch hired the man to slander us!” she shrieked. “She’s doing this because she’s jealous. She’s jealous that Kael picked me, Alphas!”

Her voice shook with panic, and almost immediately, every gaze in the room shifted to me.

The Alphas’ expressions were cold and unreadable. Samuel’s lips tilted into a faint smile. Verya raised a brow. Lucas, the Alpha of the Bloodthorn Pack, who hadn’t shown a single emotion until now, tilted his head slightly. And the elders watched with open curiosity.

Not because they doubted what the cab driver and I had said, the evidence was already clear. From what I’d heard earlier, Kael’s mother had practically admitted they hadn’t believed the note. But of course, Seraphina, oblivious as ever, had failed to read the room and decided to shift the blame onto me.

My expression didn’t change in the slightest as she continued, glaring at me with pure, unrestrained hatred.

“Is that so? They’re both lying?” Lucien repeated, speaking for the first time. The cigar hung loosely from his lips as his gaze flickered toward her, his eyes turning noticeably colder, the shift subtle but deadly.

Almost immediately, she nodded, her eyes brightening as if she truly believed her lie was working.

I saw Kael and his family turn to her, shaking their heads desperately, silently begging her to stop. Even Kael’s mother reached out to grab her arm, trying to pull her back, to stop her from lying to the Alphas. Everyone knew what happened to those who lied to them.

But Seraphina yanked herself free and stepped forward, refusing to stop.

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134 They relying

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“Y-yes, Alphas,” she stammered, her voice trembling but full of venom. “She’s jealous that Kael chose me. Y-you might not know the whole story, but after this… this bitch’s father died, Kael, my mate, was there for her. He took care of her and her mother’s hospital bills, paid for everything she asked for, she used him…” Her sneer cut across the room like a blade.

“S-Seraphina, stop-” Kael tried to intervene, but she ignored him completely.

“And if that isn’t enough, she still wanted him even though she was nothing but a wolfless leech, clinging to him for support. Even though she is nothing but a curse, a nuisance, he still took care of her, thinking she loved him…. until he found me, his mate.”

Her words were harsh, mocking, aimed to humiliate me as every eye in the room turned toward me, the atmosphere thick with tension and disbelief.

Still, my expression didn’t change. I held the same face I always did when people tried to shame me, to break me. I had been through this before; I was used to it.

But beneath the table, my hands clenched tightly on my dress, trembling slightly as Seraphina continued, her voice rising with venom. (1)

“Even when he met me, she didn’t let him go until he had to choose. Because he stopped paying her mother’s hospital bills, that’s why she’s after him and she hired this man…” She jabbed a finger at the cab driver, who went pale, shaking his head, while she smirked at me. “She hired him to frame us, Alphas! Please believe us, she’s just a wolfless omega, a… a slut-”

Her words sliced through the air, but before she could finish, the room seemed to shift. The temperature dropped suddenly, the air growing sharp, cold, and suffocating, as if the walls themselves had closed in. Every head snapped toward the source.

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