"Are you upset?"
Inez heard Killian ask as the two of them stepped out of Ally’s lodge. He had punished Ally with the cleaning duty to take care of the pack’s training room. From what Selene told her, that place was no different from a ground where piles of trash were thrown.
According to Selene, the training rooms were splattered with blood all over the walls, floor and even the roof. Sotis, when the lycans went too feral, they would end up maiming soone, leading to flesh and bones being stuck all over that place.
’A butcherhouse will be cleaner than that place,’ she told her while holding her hand and patting it soothingly. ’You might think that Kill let her off easily by handing her cleaning duty, but the truth is that many people would rather get hanged upside down than clean that place.’
’True that,’ a grumpy Laxus chid from behind Selene, and sothing told Inez that he, too, had been given the sa punishnt at so point.
She knew that Selene told her this because she felt bad about what happened to Inez, but honestly, she didn’t even care about it. Others might believe otherwise, but Inez truly felt nothing.
"No," she replied and when the man beside her raised a quirky brow, she raised her hands in the air and said to him, "I am speaking the truth. I am not upset; compared to the things that Eve accused of, this was nothing but a pretty, cute attempt in my eyes."
She paused and added, "In fact, if Ally had been cruel enough, like getting a serious injury or sothing of the sort, then I would have no case to battle. It’s a good thing that she is not smart enough."
Killian arched his brows. He questioned, "Did Eve do that a lot? Put the bla on you for the injuries that she got herself?"
"You believe ?" Inez asked, sounding quite surprised.
"I think it’s quite clear," Killian humd with a pondering look on his face. "You are not the kind of person who would lie about sothing that you didn’t do. Just now, I felt it through the pack bond, and so would have the rest, which is why no one pushed you for an answer."
"You were hiding sothing, but you certainly didn’t tell a lie." He paused and asked, "Was it Ally who put the mamba in your lodge?"
"She did." Inez agreed without hiding.
"And you did, exactly what..." Killian trailed off, and Inez’s smile was a little feral as she said to him, "Sirens can command animals. What do you think I did?"
Killian turned silent. His grandmother did tell him that sirens could control animals; they could even speak to them if they were powerful sirens. But he believed that these were nothing but rumours, but now that an actual siren had confird the truth—
"Ally just had to pick a fight with soone; she shouldn’t have, eh?" Killian remarked, and it pleased the siren in Inez when she heard the note of admiration in his tone.
She had been pretty miffed about Killian putting her and her strength down. Now that she had gotten the recognition that she wanted, Inez knew that her siren would be a bit satisfied for a while longer.
Inez, however, ignored everything and simply smiled at the man without saying anything. She had no idea why her siren found Killian so amusing, even though the man hadn’t gone out of his way to impress them and yet her siren was simply thrilled with the re fact that Killian was escorting them back to their lodge.
Pathetic.
The two of them walked in silence until they reached her lodge. She could already see the traces of a few submissive lycans peering out of their lodges and looking at her through the windows. When they saw that she was perfectly fine, they seed a bit disappointed and went back inside.
"It’s nice to see how welco I am," remarked Inez while climbing up the stairs of her porch. She didn’t want to find a place in the pack, but shifters were tactile creatures. Social and sexual touch was important to them. And going without it for weeks was not good for their ntal conditions, but Inez had no choice.
The lycans didn’t want her, and she didn’t want to fit in either. She was not going to put more aningless efforts into sothing that was dood to fail. Now she was only going to live her life her own way, a way that would not bring her pain.
Killian followed Inez up the stairs and explained, "Lycas are closely knit since they are born. It’s not in their nature to accept a stranger who didn’t grow in their pack. I know that their actions are a bit rude, but they are trying." At least none of them had tried to actively chase after Inez and feed on her flesh and bones.
Killian knew that it was due to his commands, but he was nonetheless proud of his lycans, who were doing a great job. At least they listened to him when it mattered the most.
Inez paused and turned to look at him. She didn’t say anything and just stared, which was enough to verbalise all the curses that she wanted to hurl his way, but held on. A good thing, too, because Killian wondered what others would think if they saw their alpha being cursed at by a latent.
Upon reaching the door, Killian watched Inez take out a key that she was carrying in her pocket and twist it around in the lock. She then turned to look at him and questioned, "Do you want to co inside for a midnight snack or sothing?"
"Sure," Killian replied. He knew that the woman was being just polite, but he was going to pretend that he didn’t understand the undertone as he stepped right inside the lodge.
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