My Fated Mate Can Have Her-Chapter 143: A Lycan’s Outrage

Violet

"Then what are you?" Damon demanded, equally yelling. "Because you’re certainly not the pathetic Omega I rejected! You are not even normal!"

"I didn’t do anything!" I let out in a shrill scream, my voice shaking with the effort to contain the rage building in my chest. "I didn’t kill anyone! I have every right to survive! Every right to live! And you keep taking that away from me! What did I ever do to you?! You rejected me, you sent wolves to kill me, and I tried to survived despite everything you—"

"What is this nonsense? I never sent wolves to kill—"

"LIAR!" I screamed, jabbing a finger at him. "You sent them to hunt me down! To finish what the rejection started!"

"You murdered children!" Damon yelled, his face flushing a faint red. "You tore apart two innocent pups and fled like the monster you are!"

This bastard had the guts to get angry at me?!

"I DIDN’T!" My voice cracked and I felt the slight splitting of flesh within my throat. "I was dying! I could barely walk! How could I have—"

"That’s enough!" Lord Calder’s voice boomed and the very air itself seemed to tremble.

I slowly turned to look up at him as the woman’s muffled breathing filled the air. He was standing.

Kael and another Supreme Alpha were also on their feet.

Rowan was rooted in his seat, a tear dripping down the corner of his eyes as he stared at me, hurt in his eyes.

Lord Calder’s face contorted in anger. "Enough of this disgrace..."

His words faded into a numbing buzzing sound within my ears as I caught Lady Palisa from the corner of my eye.

She was smiling.

It wasn’t even the entertained smile like she had worn earlier. This was something else.

Satisfaction. Pure, undisguised satisfaction.

Rage exploded through me with such force that I physically staggered.

"You!" The word ripped from my throat as I pointed a shaky finger at her. "You did this! You did something to her!"

"Order!" Lord Calder’s voice cracked like a whip. "You will control yourself or—"

"She is manipulating that woman!" I shouted over him. "Can you not see it?! Look at her! She is smiling! A woman is sobbing over her dead children and she is smiling!"

The pink-haired witch chuckled. "Let her act out, Calder. The girl is grasping at straws rather than face what she’s done."

"I didn’t do anything!" My syzygy rushed through my veins, the energy building not just in my chest but all over my body, hot and demanding. "I never touched those children!"

"You will be silent!" Calder’s voice carried the full weight of his authority as Supreme Alpha.

Just as a heavy, crippling force rammed against me with full force, something inside me snapped.

Power surged through my veins like wildfire, hot, wild, and unstoppable.

And the power exploded from me, radiating outward in waves that filled the hall with a pressure so intense the air itself seemed to thicken.

My voice mixed with a guttural deep sound as I yelled, "ENOUGH!"

My command was absolute.

Everyone would yield to it.

I willed it!

A force of will made manifest.

Every voice, every mumbling in the hall, even the woman’s sobs cut off mid-sound. Every movement stopped. Every wolf in the room went rigid, frozen in place as if turned to stone.

Including the Supreme Alphas.

Especially them.

Their eyes went wide with shock at their inability to move. Calder’s mouth hung open. Some of the Supreme Alphas that had tried to get up remained half-risen from their seats, suspended in that stiff position.

Even Palisa’s smirk had frozen on her face, and her wicked eyes had blown wide with sheer panic.

Kael and Rowan remained unaffected, but they were just as rigid, with Rowan sitting stiff due to a shock that was more intense than Kael’s.

Their eyes were wide with stunned disbelief.

But I barely registered them.

I stretched out my hand and my entire focus had narrowed to a single point.

Palisa.

The smile had vanished from her face. Her eyes were wide, her knuckles white where they gripped the armrests of her chair. For the first time since I had seen her, she looked genuinely afraid.

The other Supreme Alphas struggled against my hold and my body felt it, but I ignored the strain. All they could manage were slight fidgets and shifts in their expressions as they stared at me.

"You," I called out to her, my voice carrying that same resonating weight of command. "Tell them. Tell them the truth. Tell them what you did!"

Palisa’s mouth opened, but no sound came out. She was struggling against the command. I could see it in the way her body trembled, the way her jaw clenched with effort. The way she gasped and fought against me more stubbornly than the others.

"Tell them!" I commanded, and the will in my voice intensified.

The windows rattled. I heard whimpers from the other wolves. And Palisa gasped, a horrible choking sound.

"What did you do to her?" I gritted out. "Answer me!"

"I—" The veins bulged against the skin of her neck as she fought every word. "I—can’t—"

"ANSWER!"

The word crashed through the hall like thunder, and I finally felt her resistance shatter under my hold.

"Memo... manipulation..."

"Louder!" I demanded, taking a step closer. "I cannot hear you!"

"I... brainwashed... her," Palisa choked out, each word seeming to cost her tremendous effort.

"What exactly do you mean?!"

"Altered—her... memories... Planted false recollections of..." Her lips clamped shut and I forced them open, taking another step closer.

"Talk!" I shouted.

She gritted her teeth. "Made her believe she saw—saw you—doing... it." Palisa’s face was pale, sweat beading on her forehead. "Implanted false recollections of... her children’s deaths."

"So, her children were already dead. You just..." My voice cracked with barely controlled anger. "Why?"

She was scared. I could sense she was scared.

But a strangled chuckle burst out of her throat. "Why... not?"