Chapter 97 Payback Begins at Home


    Marcus’s POV


    The lights at Bloodrock Estate zed brightly, illuminating the entire night.


    But inside the house, the air was colder than a freezer.


    I sat alone in the main hall, trying to calm the rage simmering in my chest–and the restless growl of the Wolt inside me.


    Learning that my son still hadn’t returned only fueled the fire. I gripped my cane and mmed it repeatedly into the floor, each strike a release of bitter frustration.


    “He still has the nerve to be out wandering around? He was married to Leslie for three damn years and didn’t notice anything strange?!”


    I ground the words out between my teeth.


    I couldn’t shake the image in my head–Leslie, standing there in front of everyone, donating the Ancestor Fang without blinking. That fang was the legacy of our Pack. A sacred heirloom. And she handed it over like it was nothing.


    I turned and red at Belle and Slyvana, fury boiling over.


    “You two brainless fools!”


    I roared at them.


    “Useless! Worse than useless!”


    Belle tried to defend herself. “It was Leslie–she tricked everyone-”


    I cut her off with a sharp, bitterugh.


    “And that fang–wasn’t it you who took it out of the estate in the first ce? And now you’ve got the gall to me her?”


    The hall went silent under the weight of my anger.


    Just then, a beta came running in, breathless with excitement.


    “Sir! He’s back!”


    I looked up and saw my son finally walk through the door.


    Furious, I grabbed the expensive porcin teacup on the table and hurled it at his feet. It shattered with a crash, shards flying everywhere.


    “You actually remember where you live?!”


    My shout echoed through the massive hall.


    Kirby’s POV


    I stepped over the broken pieces without blinking. My face was expressionless as I nced at my mother


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    Chapter 97 Payback Begins at Home


    and sister, both cowering in the corner


    Then I looked toward my father, seated at the head of the room.


    “You wanted to see me?”


    My voice was t.


    “You think this is a joke?”


    He jumped to his feet, pointing at me.


    “All this with Leslie–you knew nothing? You slept with her for three years and didn’t feel a trace of Alpha power in her body?!”


    “I didn’t.”


    I lifted my eyes, calm and cold.


    “I never slept with her. And wasn’t that what you all wanted?”


    If they hadn’t treated her like that, none of this would’ve happened.


    “Kirby, apologize to your father,” Belle urged, shooting me a look. “That woman’s the one who lied to everyone.”


    I curled my lip in a cold smirk.


    Toote for that now.”


    “Then what do you suggest we do?” my father barked.


    “Do what Lars said,” I replied calmly. “Apologize.”


    “If apologizing fixed anything, do you think I’d be this angry?!”


    He red at me, eyes wide with rage.


    “An apology means admitting we ndered her–used her of things that weren’t true! What about the Crimson Moon Pack’s reputation?!”


    “Exactly!” Slyvana jumped in. “Why apologize at all? Just deal with it privately! No need to be humiliated like this!”


    I shot her a re so sharp she immediately shrank back.


    “Fine.”


    I let out a coldugh.


    “If you won’t apologize publicly, then let’s all go apologize in person.”


    “What?!” my mother shouted first.


    Bow her head to the same woman she once ordered around like a servant? She’d rather die.


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    “Enough!”


    My father’s face turned an ugly shade of gray. He stared at me—his pride, his heir–and finally saw i <i>wasn’t </i>backing down.


    “There’s no other way?”


    “No.”


    I didn’t even blink.


    What we owe her… we should’ve paid a long time ago.


    THO


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