To ruin an Omega novel Chapter 433

Chapter 433: How you get them 1

PAULINE

I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand, tasting bile and blood. When I looked up, Marcus stared down at me with something that made my skin crawl.

Not anger.

Worse.

Recognition. Like he finally saw me for what I truly was.

"Dimitri..."

The name died on my lips.

He turned to the sentinels, then to the delicate and her handler. His voice came out flat and cold.

"Give us a moment."

They obeyed without question. The door clicked shut behind them.

Fear lanced through me sharp enough to cut. I scrambled backward on the floor, my hands slipping in my own vomit, but he moved faster. His hand closed around my arm with bruising force, yanking me upright.

"I had a daughter?" His voice cracked on the word. "A granddaughter out there?"

"I only knew recently." The half-truth tasted sour even as I spoke it. "I swear to you, I only just—"

"Do not." He shook me hard enough to rattle my teeth. "Do not lie to me. Not now."

"What do you want me to say?" I tried to wrench free, but his grip only tightened. "That I knew? That I planned it? I did what I had to do to survive in a world where men like you hold all the power and women like me have to claw for scraps!"

"You sold my child."

"I did an Omega! I sold a threat!" The words exploded out of me. "A girl who would have taken everything from me. Who would have poisoned you against our children. Against me. I protected what was mine!"

"The Omega...was pregnant."

"I did not know that." At least that part was true. "How could I have known? She never said anything. Never showed. By the time I sold her to—"

I cut myself off.

"To whom, Pauline?"

My chest heaved. Sweat dripped down my spine despite the cold settling into my bones.

"It does not matter now. There is nothing to be done except—"

"Except what?" He leaned closer, his face inches from mine. "Except let you keep spinning your webs? Keep destroying lives to protect your position?"

"Our position!" I grabbed the front of his shirt, my fingers twisting in the fabric. "Everything I did was for us. For our family. For the legacy we were supposed to build together."

He looked at me like I had lost my mind.

Maybe I had.

"You really will never change, will you?"

The quiet devastation in his voice cut deeper than any scream.

"This is the way I am," I said, lifting my chin even as tears streaked down my face. "You knew what I was when you chose me instead of my sister. You wanted the cunning. The ruthlessness. The woman who would do anything to keep what was hers."

His jaw clenched.

"And you would be lying to yourself if you did not admit that this is the way you are too," I continued, my voice breaking. "So maybe we deserve each other."

His eyes flashed red.

Pure crimson bled across the whites, spreading like blood through water. His wolf surged to the surface with enough force that I felt it press against my skin.

"No." The word came out guttural. "No one deserves this. No one deserves a monster like you."

Terror spiked through me.

"Dimitri—"

"I am going to drain you." His voice dropped to something barely human. "Every drop of power you think you have in your veins. I will take it back."

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