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Artem

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“That’s it, I’m done talking to you.” I stood and stepped away from her. “Your breath is killing me as it is.”

“Fine, then unchain me and I will be on my way.” She smirked, like she thought this was all over already.

“Like I said, what makes you think you’re going anywhere, huh?” I’m sure she could see the evil glint filling my eyes at the moment.

“Oh, that’s right, you need to rough me up a little right. Send me a message. And you hope I will pass it along to my family.” She was smiling and nodding her head. “Go ahead, do your worst, I can take it.”

“Oh, I know you can take a hit. I found that out last week when I fought you at your uncle’s house.” I reminded her. She might be nose blind after having to sniff that family every day of her miserable life, but I sure wasn’t. My nose remembered what she smelled life from when she threw herself at me and bit my arm.

“Oh, so that was you?” She grinned. “Your blood tasted so sweet.” She was looking at me with longing now. “I wanted to get another taste. Sorry I didn’t remember your face, I was a little preoccupied that night.” She was trying to straighten up, trying to look, of all things, seductive. “Why don’t you drop that slut, Star, and run away with me instead?”

“Hard pass.” I managed to say before I could dry heave, just the thought of it made me gag.

“Damn you’re a real piece of work.” Kent snapped at her. “You literally just professed your love for your precious Howie, now you want the Alpha. You’re fucking sick.”

“Fuck you.” She yelled at him. “I’m a woman and I like me a strong, yummy man.” She didn’t even have the decency to look embarrassed after having said that. As for me, I was appalled, at just having to hear it.

“Keep fucking dreaming, Trashy, because I will never run with you.”

“Your loss, big boy.” She continued to try and sound seductive. “Just rough me up like you’re planning and then let me go. I will never darken your doorstep ever again.”

“No, you see, there you go again.” I could hear the anger in my voice, my frustration was coming out again.

I backed away a step, I needed to collect myself for a second.

“You can’t honestly think you’re going to kill me and there will be no consequences.” She definitely sounded scared now, that fear that she was throwing away earlier like it was nothing, it was finally coming back. “No, fuck you, fuck the both of you. You can’t do this. You can’t kill me. I’m not a weak wolf. I’m not an Omega like that bitch you like. I’m not someone you can just throw away.” She was panicking now, trying to get away, trying to break the chains, but they wouldn’t budge.

“Stop trying to talk your way out of this, it will only make things harder for you.” I heard Kent’s calm and steady voice as he stopped her angry tirade.

“No, you can’t do this. I’m strong, I’m beautiful, I’m not worthless.”

“Ha.” I laughed mirthlessly at her. “You’re ugly inside and out. You’re a horrible, worthless person and you will answer for your crimes.”

“No, no, no.” She was nearly screaming the word over and over again.

“You would have killed Star if it wasn’t for Howard. You would have killed her and you would not even have batted an eyelash. You want to talk about who does and doesn’t deserve what.” My pulse was quickening and my ears were burning with the rage that was flowing through me. “Do you really think Star deserved what you people did to her? Do you really think that it was OK to do that kind of thing to someone?”

“It’s the way things are.” She was crying now, ugly nasty blubbering as she tried to beg for her life. “It’s the way it has always been. You can’t blame me, I was just born into it.”

“We were born into it as well, but neither of us would allow corruption like that into our heart, into our souls. You’re a bad person to begin with, Trashy, and bad people need to be taken care of.”

I stalked closer to her, my right hand partially shifted so that my fingers were tipped with long, lethal claws.

“I had planned to kill you slowly, to make you pay. But I want to get back to my mate and check up on her, and frankly, you’re not worth that much of my time.”

“No, no, please, no. Stop, don’t do this, please.”

“How many times did Star beg you all to stop when she was younger? How many times did you ignore her pleas and her tears?”

She continued to scream and wail as I moved closer to her. With smooth, deliberate motions I placed my hand on her throat, pressing the tips of my fingers into the soft flesh. Almost immediately, my claws broke the barrier of her skin and Kent and I were showered in a spray of her vile blood.

In no time at all, her pathetic screams were cut off and her body stopped thrashing against her bindings. Within seconds, she had finally stopped moving. She was dead.

“Take care of this.” I told Kent as I pulled my hand free of her bloodied and broken throat. “Burn it or bury it, I don’t care which one it you decide to do, but just get rid of it. I don’t want Star to know what happened here today.”

“You think she wouldn’t be able to handle it?” He asked me with a soft voice, now that the deed was done our collective anger was fading.

“I don’t know, but she doesn’t need to know about this anyway. What she needs is to heal.” With that I turned and walked away, leaving the mess to my Beta to clean up.