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I shift too, my arms and legs feeling like Jell-O while I try to stand. I’m terrified over what’s about to happen. What’s Daniel going to think of me sneaking out of Andromeda like this? He’s going to want to know why I was wandering out after curfew.
I doubt either Ryin or Lelana saw me coming back from the humans’ town. But they’re going to want to know why I was so close to it in the first place.
I’m shoved forward between the double doors leading into Daniel’s estate. The air in here is so oppressive that it’s making it hard to breathe-or maybe that’s just my terror clenching my throat tightly.
Both shifters take me through the foyer and down to Daniel’s office where, to my surprise, he’s already awake and waiting for me.
My entire body shakes at seeing him, his eyes narrowing at me the second he spots me.
“Leave us,” he tells both shifters, who are crowding near me. Inside me, my wolf lets out a vicious growl. She may want to stand up and protect me all she wants, but no matter what, we’re powerless to our alpha.
I hate that I want to beg the other two not to leave me here alone with him, though I doubt they’d even listen to me in the first place. In fact, I’m sure they’d revel in my begging.
“Sir, there’s something you need to know,” Lelana says. “She was dropping this off when we spotted her.”
My heart absolutely sinks into my stomach the moment my package from the mailbox is set down on Daniel’s desk.
No.
No, no, no.
The entire room grows fuzzy, my head swimming.
Daniel glares down at the package before saying, “Leave” once more.
I swallow thickly as they both turn and head out, shutting the door to the office behind them. Daniel’s alpha energy is more oppressive here than when I first walked into his estate. So much so, that I actively have to fight myself not to drop to my knees before him and grovel.
“I’m going to give you one chance to tell me why you were out past curfew.” His voice is calm and quiet. It scares the shit out of me.
It takes me a few tries to get the words out, but I finally manage to say, “I-I was…s-sending a package…”
“To?”
Instantly, my mouth clamps shut.
Just punish me, I want to beg. Punish me and get it over with.
My eyes drop down to the carpet in submission. I’ll do whatever I can to seem as nonthreatening as possible. Maybe he’ll take mercy on me and toss the package without bothering to look at it. Maybe he’ll let me go with a simple lashing.
I can handle that.
Anything but him opening up the package.
“Kneel.”
My knees buckle instantly.
I fall to the floor at his feet, bowing my head until my hair is a curtain around my face. My eyes squeeze shut, waiting for the blow to the head from his shoe or something else within reach. All I hear though, is him ripping into the package.
“Please,” I whisper.
“What is this?” he asks, though not really to me, more to himself.
I peek between the strands of my hair to see he has my letter to Theodore in one hand, slightly crumpled, and in the other is the pregnancy test.
His eyes widen when he realizes what it is and then he flips it over to read the result. “You whore…so this is what you were doing while you were supposed to be gathering intel for me.”
I don’t have time to react before he tosses the letter on the ground and then grabs me by the hair, yanking me up from the floor. Pain radiates along my scalp, making me wince.
“You think spreading your legs is going to be what saves you? No male is going to want a used-up slut like you.”
His words sting enough to make my eyes water.
Theodore will be different. He’s not going to think of me like that. He wants to be with me, he said so himself.
“I should’ve sold you off as a breeder a long time ago,” Daniel goes on, “since you want to spread your legs for any male that comes your way. Hell, I should be renting you out right now to any alpha who wants a piece of you.”
“Please.” Tears fall from my eyes. “Don’t.”
He throws me to the ground. “Who’s the father? Do you even know? Or were you too busy fucking the entirety of the Pollis pack?”
I sob into the plush carpet under me. “I’m sorry.”
“You’re sorry?” He laughs. “Sorry enough to sneak out and send this package to your lover. Did you really think I wouldn’t be keeping tabs on you after you failed me?”
The news shocks me.
Almost five weeks and he’s been keeping tabs on me? That’s so ridiculous that I wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t coming directly out of the horse’s mouth.
Why bother? What could he possibly have suspected me of doing?
I’ve only gotten lucky so far by passing Delilah my notes to send to Theodore in my stead, but tonight I got too greedy. I let her get me too excited and went out to send the letter myself, instead of waiting for her to bring it into town a few days from now.
The potential to finally be free of this place had been too great to ignore my impulses.
Daniel kicks me hard in the side, causing me to let out a whimper and a gasp.
I crumble onto the carpet, holding my hand protectively over my stomach.
“Let’s see what this letter says, shall we?”
He bends and plucks it off the ground again. It’s hard to see him through my blurry vision, but I watch as his eyes dart across the page, reading each line and then slowing as he gets to the bottom, where I address Theodore by name.
His hand clenches around the paper, creasing it dramatically. “You…
fucked him?” He lets out an incredulous laugh.