Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha
Chapter 33: You are not welcomed (2)

Chapter 33: You are not welcomed (2)

Inez rushed downstairs in a heartbeat. As soon as she jumped down the last step, she smelt a yummy scent that she had come to dislike. With her heart thudding in her chest, she stepped inside the living and strode over to stand next to Scarlet.

The confusion in the eyes of her sister was mirrored in her own as she stared at the mountain of the man who was standing in the middle of her living hall as if he had the right to do so.

"Now, Scarlet," her mother chided Scarlet as if she was being rude to the Moon Goddess herself. "This is not the way to talk to our guests."

Scarlet wheeled to look at her mother; she was simply shocked at the actions of their mother. She said in an accusatory tone, "Guests? Have you finally lost it, Mom? Have you forgotten what this guy and the rest did to Inez?"

Inez felt a surge of pride and warmth in her heart when she heard Scarlet’s words. At least someone in the pack was willing to stand up for her.

"Scarlet!" Maria hissed at her younger daughter when she didn’t seem to be backing down; she simply turned to look at her oldest. "Do you have nothing to say about this?"

"Yeah, I do." Inez nodded and replied before turning to look at Blake and stating in a cold voice, "Goodbye and get lost."

She knew why Blake was here, and she didn’t like it.

It was one thing that Dominic and the boys had tried to govern her life when she was tied and bound by a contract but Inez wasn’t happy with their actions of forcing her to submit to their will when she clearly had no intentions of doing so anymore.

In the past, she was willing to try anything to get her friends back and she was too much of a coward to run away. But maybe it had something to do with her wolf being so forcefully snatched from her that she wanted to escape this place that had taken everything away from her.

"Inez, what do you mean by those words?" Maria sounded harassed as if she was having a hard time raising two unreasonable daughters who could not understand her efforts.

She briefly glanced at Inez. "I am so sorry, Blake, but Nessie is having a hard time with everything that is going on with our lives. I assure you that she doesn’t mean it and she is very apologetic about whatever she might have done to make you and the alpha upset."

Her mother was on a roll, wasn’t she? She was literally saying things that Inez didn’t even mean. In fact, she didn’t even think that she needed to be apologetic towards anyone. Not once.

"Of course, I understand, Miss Sinclair," Blake smiled as he turned to look at Inez, who stood her ground. "Can I talk to Nessie for a minute?"

"No."

"I would rather shove a hot poker down my throat."

Scarlet and Inez refused at the same time. Though the two sisters didn’t know why Blake was here to see Inez, they knew that it was nothing good.

However, they underestimated the charm and temptation of getting into the good books of Dominic held.

Maria turned to look at the two of them and stated in a cold voice, "Blake is a nice guy, Inez. He came to see you despite everything you have done —"

"And he knows what I have done, dear mother?" Inez turned and glanced at her mother. Though she didn’t say anything out loud, it was enough to make Maria stiffen. Her face twitched and she turned to look at Blake, "Excuse me."

She then marched over to where Inez was standing and caught her by her wrist before pulling her inside the small study that belonged to Inez’s stepfather.

"Now, you listen to me," Maria raised her hand just as her voice simmered down. She peered at the door that was tightly closed and shut behind the two of them before wheeling around and looking at Inez. "You are not going to ruin this for us, Inez. I am warning you."

She looked so wild and chaotic that Inez looked at her mother with an alarming gaze. She furrowed her brows and questioned, "Ruin what?"

"Blake came to see you here." ignoring her question, Maria continued as if the two of them were having a one-way conversation. "You are going to go outside with me now and you will have a nice and docile conversation with him, just like he asked you." though her mother’s voice never rose past the sickly, sweet decibel, Inez knew that this was equivalent to screaming for Maria.

"If I don’t, what will you do?" Inez asked. She held her mother’s gaze and stated, "You know that it’s hard for me to hold a one-sided conversation with anyone."

Maria smiled at her. Just the way she usually did when she was about to drop the most ridiculous punishment. Locking her up in the basement, starving her or throwing her outside in the cold weather —all in the name of teaching her better.

"Then I think you also remember that Scarlet doesn’t like the little dance class that I arranged for you when you were sixteen. Unless you want me to make her join one, you need to go and get your act together," Maria spoke with a polite, simpering tone.

"That’s a low blow and you know that, Mom." Inez couldn’t believe that her mother was actually using her own daughter to make her lower her head. Not that it came as a surprise; she knew very well, that for her mother, the one thing that mattered the most was her reputation and how many envious gazes she usually got.

Everyone,including Ricky, was just a stepping stone for her.

As long as her children were useful for her, her mother would be the sweetest woman on this planet but Moon Goddess forbid if they were to become useless in her eyes.