Twice Tempted: Between Two Alphas (Mia and Cameron) novel Chapter 80

Chapter Eighty

Ashley.

They’d been so bent on having to track her down, and here she is… waiting for us. Nothing prepares me for the rage I feel.

My hands morph to claws, and Nala is scratching at my mind to break free.

“There is no fighting on Seer grounds,” my guide warns.

I don’t even know her name, so no offense, but I don’t really give a shit about the rules. Ashley is my enemy.

I growl.

I let my senses take over. I don’t scent fear. Not from Ashley, not from any of these other wolves. A quick assessment of my surroundings shows these many Seers seated and lounging. All of their attention is on us, but it is with the amusement of a show, not the fury or basked energy that precedes an attack.

I hate Ashley on principle. For what she’s done to me, my pack, my family.

Eric is motionless beside me. His eyes are confused. His mouth presses thin.

Ashley takes a step down from the trellised area.

Her hair flows behind her, and her eyes are bright.

She still looks too thin, no doubt a result of her many months of infirmity.

“It can’t be,” Eric mutters.

What? I say to him, mind-to-mind, but the connection is not there.

“No,” he says.

Ashley’s eyes turn cold. “You decimated my pack. You are responsible for my mother’s death and my brother’s demise. I despise you and want no part of this.”

“You killed my sister!” Eric snarls.

“Did I?” she says cryptically.

What the hell does that mean? She may not have personally slaughtered Corinne, but she brought the wraiths.

Eric’s hands curl into fists. “You instigated an attack on my people–in my home!”

She squares her shoulders. “Your arrogance has no limits. You want to be the Alpha. You want to conquer and kill and usurp lands and power and property…then be prepared to face the consequences!”

I glance between them as they argue. Are they respecting the Seers’ decree that there can be no violence? I can’t believe they're even arguing so civilly given the atrocities they’ve both committed against the other.

Personally, I don’t give a shit.

I have my own score to settle.

“You killed our mother!” I scream. “You tried to kill me!”

Ashley looks at me now. Her eyes are flat and unapologetic. “You’ll return the favor, sister. The day will come when you will try to kill me. I’ve seen it.”

She’s right about that.

Holy. Shit.

I stare at Eric, and he’s rigid.

He looks furious and bewildered, and no doubt, if what she says is true, then this is a nightmare unfolding.

Ashley killed his sister.

Ashley and her brother arranged a coup and attacked his pack.

Ashley mated another Alpha under false pretenses and made a bargain with a witch coven.

As far as future wives go… this bitch is the last one you’d want to be saddled with.

I can’t even imagine how impossible it would be for his pack to accept her.

Or for Eric to forgive her for her many, many sins.

I’m speechless.

I glance around, seeing this assembly for what it really is.

Holy. Shit. – I can’t help but think again.

This is a wedding ceremony…