Dumped Omega? Now Their Alpha King Begs at My Feet novel Chapter 67

Valerie's POV

I looked at his face. His expression was a mask of cold, deadly fury. And all of it was for me.

For the first time in my life, someone was angry on my behalf. It was a strange, powerful feeling. A warmth spread through my chest that had nothing to do with magic.

He was offering me a fantasy. A dark, beautiful fantasy I had played in my own head a thousand times during the cold nights in the basement.

I saw it all in my mind's eye. Alpha Blackwood, on his knees, stripped of his power. Luna Iris, her jewels torn from her neck, forced to scrub floors just as I had.

And Brenda. I imagined Brenda, her perfect dresses in rags, her social status gone. I imagined her watching her perfect, manicured world burn to the ground.

The thought was so tempting it was a physical ache. All I had to do was say one word. "Yes."

That was it. Just one word, and Kai would unleash his entire army, his entire empire, to erase them from the earth. He would be the monster that slayed my demons.

He was waiting for my answer. His hand was still hovering in the air between us, an offer of absolute power.

But then, another part of me, a part that was older and colder and harder, spoke up. It was the part of me that had survived eighteen years in that basement.

That part of me had survived by being invisible. By being silent. By taking every insult, every act of cruelty, and locking it away in a box deep inside me.

That pain was mine. I had earned it. I had lived with it. It had shaped me into the person I was.

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