Blood Demon Revenge

The Scars She Hid From The World

REGINA MCBRIDE

The heavy iron gates of the Wilderness Correction Camp groaned as they released me after three years of state-sponsored hell. I stood on the dirt road, clutching a plastic bag that held my entire life, waiting for the family that claimed they sent me there for "rehab." My brother, Brady, picked me up in a luxury SUV only to throw me out onto a deserted highway in the middle of a brewing storm. He told me I was a "public relations nightmare" and that the rain might finally wash the "stink" of the camp off me. He drove away, leaving me to limp miles through the mud on a snapped ankle. When I finally dragged myself to our family estate, my mother didn't offer a hug; she gasped in horror because my muddy clothes were ruining her Italian marble. They didn't give me my old room back. Instead, they banished me to a moldy gardener’s shack and hired a "babysitter" to make sure I didn't embarrass them further. My sister, Kaleigh, stood there in white cashmere, pretending to cry while clinging to her fiancé, Ambrose—the man who had once been mine. They all treated me like a volatile junkie, refusing to acknowledge that Kaleigh was the one who planted the drugs in my bag three years ago. They wanted to believe I was broken so they wouldn't have to feel guilty about the "wellness retreat" that was actually a torture chamber. I sat in the dark of that shed, feeling the cooling gel on the cigarette burns that covered my arms, and realized they had made a fatal mistake. They thought they had erased me, but I had returned with a roadmap of scars and a hidden satellite phone. At dinner, I didn't beg for their love. I simply rolled up my sleeves and showed them the price of their silence. As the wine spilled and the lies crumbled, I sent a single text to the only person I trusted: "I'm in. Let them simmer." The hunt was finally on.

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SELENE

Alpha Lucas was going to be overjoyed once I told him the good news that I was pregnant.

I knew that I was the Luna and that meant that I had to carry myself with grace but I was so happy, so excited that I half ran, half walked as I made my way to his study.

Usually, I didn't disturb my love when he was there, it was his personal space but this news could not wait, I could not wait to tell him he was going to become a father!

I pushed open the door without knocking, "Darling, you are not going to believe what I have to tell–" the words hung in my mouth as my eyes widened.

Alpha Lucas' pants were around his ankle and he was balls deep inside another woman, his naked butt clenching viciously as he thrust into her.

The bottle of champagne that I had brought for us to celebrate with fell from my hand and smashed to pieces at my foot, sending glass and red wine flying in every direction.

I looked on, and squinted my eyes, refusing to believe what I was seeing.

The woman was lying with her back on the table and her legs hung around his shoulders.

"Babe!" he stiffened and quickly reached down and pulled up his pants.

I shook my head and stepped backward out of the room and slammed the door.

No, this could not be, I did not just see what I thought I saw, my whole body felt like I was on fire despite being in an air-conditioned hallway.

My heart was beating in my chest furiously and now tears were starting to well up in my eyes. Instinctively, my hand went to my belly and then I ran.

It was as if the hallway walls were closing in on me, trying to trap me within them, I couldn't spend another second here, I needed to get out.

"Honey!" I heard his voice calling me from behind but this just made me run even faster, I needed to put as much space between us as I could.

Oh my goodness! My love did this to me?

How? How did he violate the mate bond like that? I should have known something was wrong, how didn't I? Did the pregnancy somehow affect my ability to sense his emotions?

How could he do this to us, to me, and his baby? This was the highest form of betrayal.

Now the scent of that strange woman was burned into my memory, I could never forget it.

I kept running until I ended up in the woods far beyond our pack. I didn't want anyone to see me cry, as soon as I was certain that I was alone, I broke down and tears flowed freely from me.

This was supposed to be the happiest day of our lives, this was not supposed to be happening, not to me, how could Lucas do this to me? We loved each other more than anything, didn't we?

I had begun to doubt everything.

"There you are!" he said, panting heavily.

I turned around startled to see him there, "Get the hell away from me!" my voice was mingled with grief and anger.

"Babe, babe, please, just let me explain okay, it is not what you think!" he took a step forward.

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