Chapter 107
Chapter 107
Ellie POV
It was obvious to all of us that something was terribly wrong.
Nolan had summoned all of us to a predawn meeting. Lance and Cassian were here, along with the leaders of the pack. It was clear that something very serious was going on.
He was standing there with a stack of documents on the table before him. His shoulders were tense, his eyes down on the documents with a look of concentration that worried me. This wasn’t the normally cold man I knew; he looked like he was physically holding back a storm.
I wanted to ask what the hell was going on, but I couldn’t bring myself to break the tense silence.
Lance put his hand on the back of my chair, a protective gesture that calmed my nerves just a little. I looked to him and found that his expression was the same mix of unease and confusion that I was feeling.
Cassian, on the other hand, looked like he had been expecting this. His posture was stiff like he was prepared to strike at a moment’s notice.
Then Feliciity walked in.
It felt like all of the air was sucked out of the room.
Nolan stood at the far end of the long table, the Alpha in full command, though his hands trembled just enough that I noticed. He placed his pal
on the stack of papers, and his stormy eyes lifted and locked on Felicity.
She paused for just a moment before her heels clicked across the floor. She was made up, dressed to the nines despite the hour. The look on her face betrayed her unease, though.
I leaned a little closer to Lance as I felt him go stiff beside me. His hatred of Felicity might have been the reason, but I had a feeling he could sense the same thing I did. Something was off about the way she and Nolan were looking at each other.
“Felicity has betrayed this pack p>
The words struck like thunder, echoing off the stone walls. Nolan’s voice seemed to lodge in my mind. His tone was firm, but there was a quiver just at the end that gave away the emotion.
All eyes turned to Felicity, who sat there primly, looking at him with a defiant tilt to her chin.
“She orchestrated the attempt on my wife’s life. She ordered the poisoning at the first formal dinner with Moonstone. She ordered the attempted assassination by the rogue now in our custody. She knew Ellie was pregnant, and she gave the command anyway p>
The room gasped in unison. My hands went numb. I clutched at the edge of the table, trying to anchor myself as the world tilted. Lance’s hand landed on my shoulder, anchoring me.
Felicity didn’t flinch. Her chin lifted, and her voice rang out steady, almost pitying.
“You can’t believe this. Nolan, anyone could have forged evidence. Anyone could have twisted things to make it look like me p>
But her eyes were fixed on him, not on the council. On him alone.
And when Nolan cut her off-“Enough”-the crack of his voice left no room for doubt.
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The room felt icy as we all waited for something to happen. The pack council held their comments, waiting to see how Nolan would handle this.
This was a test of his leadership. None of us could speak up now to help him through this. It would make him look weak.
“You killed my children,” Nolan said, his voice raw.
Felicity’s mask slipped. “I did it for us!” she screamed, her voice shrill with outrage. “Everything I did was for you. For what we swore to each other p>
The words were knives. I froze, staring between them, the shape of something unspoken rising like smoke.
Swore to each other. What had they sworn? What bond tied them together that gave her the audacity to say such a thing here, now, in front of everyone?
But Nolan’s face was stone. “You raised your hand against my mate. Against my children. That cannot be forgiven p>
The sound of my own heartbeat roared in my ears. Children. He still believed them gone. My stomach twisted with guilt, but there was no space for that now. Not with Felicity glaring at me like she wanted to burn me alive.
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