ALPHA'S ENDLESS REGRET: After The Barren Luna's Leave novel Chapter 79

I hadn’t expected Froste to defend me. The bully sisters looked pretty shocked as well. They’d probably thought that Froste would take their side with all the bullshit they’d been doing.

I watched as they exchanged looks. Something like a silent conversation had transpired between them.

They both turned to me, their faces no longer prideful like it had been before. They looked somewhat remorseful now.

“Please give us some money. That’s all we want.” Zeya pleaded, her voice cracking with emotion.

“It’s the only reason we’re doing this.” Loraine sniffled. “Please have mercy on us.”

They could cry as many crocodile tears as they wanted but I wasn’t about to just let them go scot free. Not after they’d just tried to ruin my reputation forever.

“Who sent you here? Who made you do all this?” I interrogated them, trying to press for some answers.

They looked at each other. I could see a hint of fear in their eyes. Whoever it was that sent them, they probably couldn’t say it.

“Look, if you give us the money, we’ll just leave quietly.” Zeya insisted, a hint of impatience in her voice.

Tears spilled down Loraine cheeks as she tried to hold my hand. “We grew up together, Giselle. We ate together, bathed together, did everything like siblings. How could you be so cold to us?”

Zeya was crying as well. “This isn’t the Giselle I grew up with.”

The old me would have felt for them and might have even given them the money they were begging for.

That Giselle was long dead.

“You won’t get her anymore.” I said to them without any emotion.

My tone was firm as I spoke, “I haven’t forgotten all the things you did to me back then. You bullied me for not having a wolf. You made me wash my clothes in freezing cold water despite knowing how fragile my health condition had been back then.”

“It wasn’t in—” Zeya tried to speak but I cut her off.

“You stole my food and left me to go hungry. You tried to get rogue wolves to bully and torment me. And yet you have the gall to come to my face and beg me for money. What a joke.”

“We didn’t mean to do that.” Loraine tried to explain. “It was just childish play. You didn’t have to take it so seriously.”

“Yeah,” Zeya agreed with her sisters. “That was just kids being kids. Can’t you see that?”

Anger raged inside me and I wanted nothing more than to lash out these two narcissistic wenches from the pit of hell.

Jack who had been silently watching everything the whole time finally began to speak. “Suspected stalking. Defamation of character. Making false and accusatory statements against Giselle. Threat of violence…I could go on.”

Their faces had gone pale as they realized the implications of what they’d just done. I didn’t want to stop them.

I wanted to instil a fear in them that would leave them paralyzed and weak in the knees at the mere mention of my name.

“If you don’t start talking, I’m going to have the two of you thrown into a cell.” Froste glared at them, his voice clear and firm.

If they could crumple on to the ground, I’m sure they would have done that already. Loraine started to cry again.

“We didn’t want to do it as first.” she cried.

“She made us do it. Promised us a huge sum of money if we did as she instructed.” Zeya wiped at her eyes furiously.

“Who made you do this?” I pressed on.

They looked at each other and described a woman who had approached them to defame me. As they went on with the description, I slowly pieced everything together.

The realization was like a splash of cold water. I’d expected her to be the last person that would do something like this. I should have known better.