CHAPTER 142: RAGE AND PROMISES

"Stop panicking, Inez," said Killian as he picked up her clothes and handed them to her. Once the woman had slid on her shirt, which had many tears in the fabric due to him being too agitated, he continued to speak, "I know what you are scared of. But I am not going to hurt you, nor am I going to control you. You are your own person — you have your own life, and as it’s your life, you are free to live it how you want. No one is going to make the decisions for you."

He continued to look at her and noticed how her tensed shoulders slowly started to relax. "However," He paused and saw her getting stiff all over again. "You will have to get used to my possessiveness now." It was bad to begin with, and now that he had finally got what he wanted, Killian knew that it was going to become even worse than before.

Inez hummed because she knew that it was going to work in both cases. "Just remember, don’t try to trap me. I am not going to let you break me." She shivered when she remembered the things that Dominic had done to her in the past, all for the sake of breaking her. She raised her head and looked at the man, expecting him to bristle for doubting him, but his expression softened.

He walked over to where she was standing and reached out to cup her nape. He rubbed the pad of his thumb against her skin and softly spoke to her, "I will never do anything to break you, Inez. This will never be about that." He paused and then added, "But if I see you with someone else, I swear I will kill them."

"I won’t do such a thing," said Inez. While it was normal for sirens to never settle for one person until they found their mates, Inez didn’t grow up among them. She wasn’t going to use Killian and then move to another partner. She raised her head and said, "The same goes for you."

"I don’t think I will need someone else after you."

Inez gave him a stiff nod. "Good." Her voice had turned husky due to the arousal which was still coursing through her body. It was tough to suppress her desire after getting a bite of the cake, but Inez underestimated Killian.

He had simply stolen her breath by claiming to want her and no one else.

A noise suddenly penetrated the silence. Someone was calling Killian’s and her name. Not just anyone, Morrineth and Fenric. She could also hear the voice of Nyx once in a while. Each time they called their names, Inez could hear their voices getting closer.

"They are going to be furious."

A few moments later, Morrineth, along with Fenric, burst through the clearing along with Nyx and Finn. The second they arrived, they all paused as if someone had pushed a pause button. Morrineth froze, and her nostrils flared a second later. Then, before anyone could stop her, she was charging right at Inez. "You bitch!"

"Morrineth, stop right there," commanded Killian as he stepped in between Inez and Morrineth. Inez, however, didn’t even flinch when Morrineth charged at her. She stared at the woman, ready to take her on head-on.

"You—how dare you touch the mate of my daughter?"

"He was the mate of your daughter," corrected Inez. "Now that she is not here, he doesn’t owe anyone anything."

Morrineth growled. She turned to look at Killian as if she didn’t want to waste her time on Inez. She said to Killian, "She is not good for you, Kill. You don’t want someone like her; she is nothing but a pack of trouble."

"You are telling me what is good for me?"

Morrineth winced at that dangerously soft tone. Telling an alpha male what was right and wrong was not a good idea.

When Inez saw her face turning pale, she felt a bit bad for the woman. Actually, no, she didn’t.

She understood that Morrineth was grieving the death of her daughter, but she really needed to accept that Lyra was gone, and she had no right to make Killian pause his life for someone who was never going to return.

"I have respected you because you are the mother of my ex-mate. But we both know that neither of us owes each other anything," said Killian as he looked at the woman in front of him.

"You fucking bastard!" Fenric stepped forward. With his hand raised, he pointed at Killian, "How can you say that—you know what you have done?!"

"What I have done?" Killian’s lycan surged to the surface. He turned to look at Fenric and spoke in a quiet voice, "Tell me what I have done."

Though the man didn’t raise his voice, there was something dangerous and explosive about his tone, which made both Morrineth and Fenric flinch.

However, Fenric didn’t stop. "She is a latent."

Killian’s beast didn’t like anyone insulting Inez. He didn’t understand how Dominic could stay quiet when his pack was insulting Inez because he and his beast wanted to rip a new one for Fenric for calling Inez latent as if it was an insult. "And you are one big, bad alpha? I bet I can beat the hell out of you in a matter of seconds."

"That’s different."

"How is it different? If you want to bring up someone’s weakness, then you better be damn sure that you are unbeatable."

"She is not what you need! There is no way she is what you will ever need!" Morrineth shrieked, losing her head altogether. "This woman must be just a little fun for you. That’s right! That’s what you will be to him! Just a bitch with whom he can sleep and throw—"

"ENOUGH!" Killian snapped. Having listened enough, he looked at Morrineth, who was acting out of line. "Say what you want to say to me; don’t drag her into this matter. If you think that I have let your daughter down, then you come at me. But don’t you ever say that Inez means so little to me."

"AHH!"