Chapter 156. A Beta

Lilith POV

The Alphas were angry. Really angry. And they were angry for me.

I stood behind them as they stared at the elders with cold, terrifying gazes, the kind that could send a shiver down my spine and make my heart race as the tension in the air suddenly grew thicker, darker.

The crowd immediately moved away from the elders, their eyes wide with fear as the respected and powerful men of the pack writhed in pain, their hands clawing at their throats as though some unseen force was choking them. As I watched everything unfold, and Lucien uttered those words…

“Let’s start with their tongues first, that way, we won’t have to hear them scream.”

I swallowed hard, once again remembering that the men who brought me flowers, who gave me gifts, who told me I was beautiful with gentle smiles, were not princes from a fairytale. No… they weren’t the kind who would wake the women they loved with a true love’s kiss. They didn’t seem like the kind who would