"Dumb Dumb dummy?" Killian turned to look at Inez; his eyes flashed with amusement as he remarked, "You have quite a fascinating skill in naming people, Miss Sinclair."
Oh, yeah, she did. This was the only way she could take her anger out on people who bothered and bullied her. She couldn't fight them, but she could give them really 'cool' names that she could use while cursing them inwardly.
"Thank you." Inez took a step back. She stared at Killian with eyes gleaming with wariness, and she asked, "Anything else you want to say, Alpha Sokolov?" It didn't matter what he wanted to say to her; unless it was an apology, Inez had no interest in listening to him.
She was going to tune him out. Totally.
"...I like women with more substance, Miss Sinclair." She heard the man say, and even though she wanted to roll her eyes so badly, she held back. With a smile on her lips, she remarked, "I see, Alpha Sokolov. It seems like all the rumours surrounding you are nothing but exaggerated lies." Liar, Liar pants on fire.
Killian eyed the woman curiously in front of him. He could tell that she was pretty much furious with him and the troubles that he had brought her but as if the fire had been extinguished, Inez Sinclair was perfectly polite and calm once again.
Even when she was angry just now, she hadn't thrown a glass full of water in his face. She was perfectly civil even when there was a furious rage bursting through her veins.
Inez hadn't yelled or threw shit on his face. Nor did she point fingers at him, and now she was speaking with no inflection. It made him wonder how many times the woman in front of him quelled her rage that she was so perfectly in control of her temper that it was terrifying.
A shifter wasn't supposed to be like this. Especially a wolf shifter. They were the kind that beat someone up first and talked later.
There was so much pain and anger packed in ice within her that Killian wondered what kind of storm Inez had braved.
"No, they are not lies."
"But you just said—"
"Just because they are not good enough to be imprinted on doesn't mean they are not for anything else," Killian remarked with a raise of his brow, and Inez bit back the scathing remark. However, she still couldn't help it and said, "It must be fun to be fawned over by a bunch of starry-eyed females, Alpha Sokolov."
"Is it a problem if that's what they want?"
Inez clamped her mouth shut again. She counted to three and opened it again. "Is there something that you wanted to say to me, Alpha Sokolov?"
"Why won't you be overseeing the meetings in the future?" he asked. If it was Inez who held the meetings, he had no problem signing the contract. The woman was skilled, and it was fun to converse with her.
Inez looked at him. Right dead in the eyes and stated coldly, "I don't think I need to relay my personal reasons to you, Alpha Sokolov."
Call him weird, but that princess-to-peasant look did something to him.
"Did anyone tell you that you have really alluring eyes?" He remarked with a twinkle in his eyes.
Unbalanced by his sudden and unexpected compliment, Inez narrowed her eyes. She sighed and said to Killian, "If thats all, I will be —-"
THUMP.
Before she could finish speaking, Inez felt her heart start thumping.
"What the—" The wildly drumming heartbeat soon turned aching and throbbing. Inez, who hadn't expected such a thing to happen, staggered.
"Hey." Killian noticed that something was wrong with the woman in front of him. Her face, which had been glowing with a rosy and healthy hue, suddenly turned pale. Her hand shot to her chest, and she clasped it as if she was having a heart attack.
Her complexion turned pale and sickly. Her eyes became unfocused as if she was looking at something afar but Killian had no idea what she was looking at, as there was nothing wrong in the parking lot.
It could only mean that Inez was staring at something else, through the pack bond or maybe the mating bond.
HOWL.
The heartbreaking howl of her wolf echoed in Inez's head. It was mournful and filled with so much anguish that it made Inez breathe as if she were breathing her last.
The pain was excruciating to the point that Inez felt as if she had been tied to a stake and set on fire. Her entire body was shaking with pain, as if every nerve in her body was burning. Her body was overloaded with heat, but not the good kind.
"Ah!" She screamed as another howl ripped through the throat of her wolf. Her knees buckled, and she fell to the ground.
"Hey!" Killian caught the woman before her knees could hit the ground and she looked at him. "What the fuck is wrong with—-"
He trailed off. The look in the eyes of woman in his arms made it impossible for him to finish his words because he knew that look. He had seen it on a stormy night. A night when everything changed for him and his pack.
The look of absolute betrayal.
He swallowed his words and helped Inez settle down on the floor. With his hands patting her on the back awkwardly, he comforted her, "It's alright. It's okay —"
However, Inez couldn't hear a word that Killian was telling her. At that moment, she was burning in her own hell. The hell that Dominic had personally created and decorated for her.
The sharp spasms of pleasure and desire shot through her head and body, but they only made her disgusted and heartbroken. She never knew that Dominic could stoop so low.
But now she did.
For the sake of breaking her, he actually held back from completely breaking the mating bond. He made her go through that humiliation but didn't let the bond break. He left some tendrils attached.
All because there was an absolute finale left.
Inez could feel the roar of pleasure that was rising high and low; she could sense how much pleasure the woman with whom Dominic was sleeping was bringing him, and it didn't just break her.
It crushed her.
Bile started rising in her throat, and her extremities started to tremble with anger and humiliation. Her wolf's pain matched her own.
There was so much ache, pain and heartbreak that Inez could feel her head throb. Her vision turned more and more blurry before the veil of darkness fell over her.