<h4>Chapter 305: 305-Betrayal Tasted Bitter Until My Savior Arrived</h4>


    <strong>Clementine:</strong>


    "It’s really none of my business, but you should’ve at least moved an arm or two," I yelled at her, watching her eyes widen.


    She instantly turned toward the others, probably asking with her wide eyes why they were letting me talk to her that way.


    " I mean, she isn’t wrong. But it is fine. There are more inside. We’d be able to get the gs for you," Troy stood beside me for a moment before stepping away tofort her.


    But I saw something in her eyes, something dangerous. She stayed silent, saying nothing.


    Suddenly, the ogres began to move away from the door.


    "Okay, we’ll go back in there—" Troy was in the middle of exining when Oriana suddenly sprinted inside.


    "Oriana!" Haiden shouted, his voice filled with worry as he almost panicked for her.


    "What the fuck is she doing?" I yelled when I saw she was heading straight for my gs.


    "We don’t need to fight these ogres! If I get these gs, we can all leave! Then it’ll be Clementine’s problem to find the gs!" she shouted, leaping over the dead bodies and leaving me stunned.


    "Oriana, it’s too dangerous!" Haiden yelled.


    Before I knew it, the three of them were running through the small door, trying to draw the monsters’ attention to themselves.


    "What the fuck are you guys doing?" I screamed.


    I didn’t know why I panicked.


    The moment I realized they weren’t focused on saving themselves but on saving Oriana, something in me pulled forward, pushing me to help them.


    I ran into the hall again, attacking the ogres so they wouldn’t reach those idiots.


    Then chaos hit. Oriana had taken my gs and was sprinting in the opposite direction.


    One of the ogres swung his arm, and I saw all my mates, along with her, get tossed around.


    I ran straight for the ogre.


    He clenched his fist, ready to m them to the ground, Troy, Yorick, Haiden, and Oriana, whoever he could crush.


    I rushed in and jumped, hanging onto his arm.


    Sweat gathered on my temple as he shook me violently, and I saw his other handing toward me.


    That’s when I stabbed him in the small circle. He screamed and threw me across the room.


    I hit the ground hard,nding among broken toys and yground furniture.


    My eyes caught something that froze me, a pendant. Not just any pendant, but a red cherry pendant, glinting under one of the tables.


    Everything went silent, and all I could hear was my mother’s voice.


    Tears filled my eyes as I crawled under the table and grabbed the pendant.


    When I turned it over, I saw the initials, and my whole body froze. I knew this was my mother’s pendant.


    "Clementine, go!" Haiden shouted, snapping me back to reality.


    The moment I tried to crawl out from under the table, another ogre fell on top of it, trapping me underneath.


    I groaned in pain and screamed.


    I tried to wiggle free, but I was already hurt, and too many thoughts were clouding my mind to focus on my movements.


    Then another ogre swung its arm and hit me so hard I felt my bones crack as I mmed against the wall.


    "Troy! Over here!" I yelled, raising my hand for help.


    I was under attack by a monster.


    If I had not entered the hall to save my mates, I wouldn’t have been in this state. But I did not regret it.


    I would do it again to save them. Even when I will never ept them, I will never leave them to die.


    The four of them heard me cry out as the creature wed me and mmed me against the wall.


    "Help me!" I gasped, but their attention shifted when a soft cry came from the other side.


    It was Oriana, the gentle princess and a warrior, abination most men lusted after.


    At that point, I still had hope.


    They could see she was fine. All they had to do was spare a few seconds for me, maybe a minute, maybe two.


    At least two of them could havee to help.


    I couldn’t remember thest time I felt so miserable.


    Maybe when I was a child and had no one to care for me.


    But now, my friends were staring at me.


    For a split second, my lips even trembled downward, and I swear they saw it.


    I wriggled my fingers as the monsters came at me again.


    If they didn’t help, I would be dead in minutes. They would crush me under them.


    It all happened in seconds, but time slowed for me.


    Then Oriana screamed, "My lovers, listen to me only!"


    And something in them seemed to snap.


    "Ohhh! I’m going to die," she whimpered again, though she could have stood up easily.


    The monster’s focus was on me.


    "Yorick!" I screamed, reaching for another of my mates, struggling to escape, my leg tangled in silver chains.


    My mates looked at me and then at her and I saw it. The shine of love in their eyes.


    In a heartbeat, they ran to her. My heart slowed. Tears welled up.


    Oriana had warned me: when it came down to it, they would choose her.


    She told me they only used me to pass time in the dorm room because I agreed for gangbang while other she-wolves did not.


    And now, right before my eyes, they were leaping into battle for her.


    "We’lle back for you, don’t worry," Haiden shouted, as if that erased the betrayal.


    At that moment, the monster turned back to me.


    And I knew there would be no saving me.


    So I prayed they’d live long enough to regret their choice.


    "No!" I screamed, closing my eyes as I turned over and saw the big ogre charging at me, his hands clenched together and raised high in the air.


    He brought them down, ready to crush me, and I clutched the pendant tightly, bracing for death.


    Before he could strike, a gust of ck shadow and wind tore through the hall.


    The others were gone by now, so I couldn’t tell who it was, until something mmed into the ogre, throwing him against the wall and breaking it apart.


    Then it rose. A wolf.


    A wolf I had never seen before, bigger, darker, and more terrifying than any monster I’d faced.


    My eyes went wide, and panic crept over me as the wolf turned its re toward me.


    For a moment, I thought two monsters were fighting over who would eat me.


    But then I met the wolf’s eyes.


    I couldn’t look away. My heart pounded so hard it hurt.


    It was a two-toned wolf, ck on top and white underneath.


    Its pale eyes, each marked with a single ck dot, stared straight at me.


    And slowly, the fear started to leave my body.


    And I uttered, "Ian!"