[JER]
Elodie Kane was jealous.
It was the only way to explain why she trashed her entire suite and made a mess of everything that led to her chambers. She had seen Jer with Malika earlier, and she had smelled the beautiful scent of a mate she wasn't meant to claim yet.
The woman had been in bed with her and yet as the evening pressed on, she was now in the arms of another, playing dead and listening to sweet nothings for a man she should have eliminated on the first day of her assignment, oh but Elodie was furious.
"Fucking hell, Kane. What the hell has gotten into you?" Theo asked, as he watched the warrior continue the mess. He had seen the way Elodie looked at her and Malika and his first thought was that Elodie was jealous, but not because of Jer.
Theo figured Elodie was jealous that Jer was with another, and she was acting out because she wanted to be the one the Alpha experienced hell for. It squirted the misunderstanding but it spread the woman's allegations of a life that could end in an instant.
"Why the fuck are you here?" Elodie asked angrily as she turned to look at Theo.
Her hair was messy and her bloodied clothes from earlier just made her look like she was insane. Perhaps she had finally gone insane from seeing the kind of contact Jer had with her mate.
Maybe she had finally lost it because the woman she loved was being held tenderly by another. Oh she hated Jer and if it didn't wasn't for Hawi, Elodie could have sliced the man's head off.
"The Alpha calls for you. He brought the Luna to his chambers and there is no one he trusts with her more than you," Theo said and Elodie glared at him like she hadn't understood a word that came from the man's mouth.
Of course she hadn't.
Her mind was foggy and her senses confused by the fact that the love of her life was playing house with another. It was fucking with her a little more than she would ever admit, but goodness, she wanted to be there for Malika.
"But seeing you state, I guess I will tell him that you are busy and he can choose another maiden for Luna," Theo said as he headed to the door, but right before the door opened, a sword flew past his ears and hit the door.
"Don't you make another move,'' Elodie warned and Theo raised his hands up in surrender.
"I want to kill her for enabling the psychos. I want to make them pay, Kane. I want them to feel the pain too," Jer said, his voice breaking and his throat so dry even as he ran a hand gently on Malika.
He couldn't believe that she was in this state.
Her lips were crushed, her face looked so botched anyone would think she had a failed surgery. Her hands were scarred and her fingers had tears in them. She had experienced so much pain.
Jer was mourning for the woman who meant the world to him.
"We will make them all pay for this. We won't forgive anyone, Jer. We won't forgive anyone. I don't care if she was my best friend, I will join you in burning them all," Elodie said, the sincerity and her voice betraying the joy she felt when she had seen Hawi.
She had been so glad to be fighting alongside her sister once again and frankly, she wanted to go and hug Hawi.
But she couldn't because this was some crazed game that they all had to play parts in, parts that needed to be punched up a notch higher with every show they succeeded in putting on.
It was cruel, but it was deserved and for that they wouldn't stop, at least that much was obvious.
"I don't even know what I'll tell her when she wakes up, or even if she ever wakes up. How do I tell the woman I love that I failed her a second time? How do I tell her that it will be okay even if we don't have pups, when her womb was ripped from her?
"Where do I even start, Elodie?" Jer asked, his head in his arms as he tried to think. But would it give him any relief?
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[A/N]
* Hi! you waited for privilege for a while, no? No worries, just one final tier to go, and then the updates will go back to normal next week... couldn't release them at once :(
* I hope you guys are having a fantastic New Year 2024