CHAPTER 351: BONE AND SINEW

She turned and looked at the man who was following her. "Did I ask you to follow me? I don’t think I did."

"Killian would skin me alive if I were to leave you alone. So try to understand."

"Killian is your alpha, not mine." Tracy rolled her eyes and turned to look at the man fully. Her expression shifted enough for the man to realise that she was not the cute bunny he had imagined her to be. Her eyes turned gloomy, like charcoal black.

Of course, the man didn’t even flinch. He straightened his spine just enough to let her know that he was not going to back down. "Impressive. I will have to admit that black looks good on you. But it’s not going to change my mind."

Tracy studied him for one whole second. For two good seconds, she considered turning the man into something small and finicky. Something she could squash under her feet, but decided against it. If she killed this jerk, then his alpha wouldn’t let it slide, and she didn’t have the time or the energy to deal with the lycan heir.

"Fine. But you’d better stay back; there is no need to threaten anyone—don’t even think of growling, snarling or doing any of your wolf business here. And if I ask you to back down, you are going to do that without any question."

The man rolled his eyes. Nonetheless, he shut his mouth and followed her without saying anything. His fangs were no longer prominent now, and he looked quite docile and gentlemanly with his expression tamed. No wonder he could make women fall for him in a matter of a few seconds.

The sound of someone humming started to drift through the air, and the two of them whipped their heads toward the sound. A young woman, fairly young, was sitting on a boulder. She was balancing three to four joy meals in her lap, comprising burgers and French fries with a big Coke. Her blonde hair was carefully curled, and her legs were swinging back and forth. But there was something about her presence—like she was satisfied with whatever chaos she had caused.

And there was that energy radiating off her.

"Well, that’s her," she whispered, stepping past the tree behind which she was hiding.

"This little girl? What can she even do at this point?"

"Little girl? That girl might be older than your great-great-great-grandma’s old bones in her grave." Tracy snickered as she glanced back at the man.

She turned her attention back to the young girl and released a sigh. Without wasting another second, she made her way toward the young girl.

"It seems like you are having a lot of fun," Tracy remarked with a smile on her lips.

The woman swivelled her head around. Her eyes widened in shock.

"You—"

Bang!

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"AHH!" Inez screamed in pain as the man twisted her arm behind her back. A punishment she deserved for hitting the man in the crotch. At least that was what the man told her. She closed her eyes and tried to breathe through her mouth. Her entire body was shuddering and convulsing due to the pain that the man had inflicted on her in just three mere seconds.

Inez’s eyes started to burn; her eyes were glistening with tears as she could feel her bones cracking under the strength of the vampire. Even if the man was only a half-vampire in the end, he was still a supernatural being; his strength was enough to make her bones crumble in dust and with the wolfsbane in her system, her healing had slowed down at an alarming rate.

"You fucking bitch. I will break you limb by limb. And no one will ever find out what I did to you because not a single fucking person cares about you. I will claim that you tried to make a run for it and toppled off the cliff behind the building and died." Gilderoy continued to speak in a menacing manner.

"Let her go, you bastard!" Scarlet roared, her eyes burning with tears as she looked at Inez’s arm that was now twisted at an angle that was simply inhuman.

However, Gilderoy didn’t even pay attention to her. He didn’t take her seriously, for he had injected enough wolfsbane into the body of the red-haired woman. It would be a motherfucking surprise if that woman could even get back on her feet. He licked his lips and pressed himself onto Inez. smelling her scent, he shuddered in delight. "You are one fine woman; what a pity that you caused me so much trouble, or else I wouldn’t have made you suffer like this."

Inez closed her eyes. She still tried to push the man away from her, but he wouldn’t let her go. His lips pressed against the back of her neck, and Inez shivered, not out of delight but out of disgust and horror.

"That’s right, I will give you a really good night," muttered the man as he tore open the fabric of the shirt that Inez was wearing and went to unhook the bra and that was when it happened—

The scent of blood, followed by a mournful scream, echoed in the clearing, and Inez whipped her head to look behind her.

Her heart sagged with relief; she didn’t even know if it was possible, but somehow it managed to do it. She had never felt so relieved before as she did at that moment.

"Alph...alpha Sokolov?" Fear crept into the eyes of the head guard as he looked at Killian with a hint of trepidation and worry. "What? What happened? Why are you here?"

The head guard was quite respectful while speaking to Killian, as he was not an idiot who didn’t know where to speak and how. Killian Sokolov was not the kind of person he would dare to offend, even in his worst possible dream.

"Why am I here? How can I not be here when a dumbass tried to touch my mate? Tell me. Should I skin you alive or eat you whole, bone and sinew—slowly, very slowly for the sin you have committed?"