Inez knew that she needed to shut her mouth and walk away. However, her siren side was filled with rage and humiliation. Sirens were never good with walking away from a fight and Inez was finding it hard to do the same. They were creatures so ethereal that even Kings would fall to their knees at first sight, so how could Inez accept this lack of respect?
"You are wrong."
"Excuse me?" Domini pinned her gaze with his and questioned, "What did you just say?"
Inez sucked in a breath and stepped past Killian. She was thankful that the Lycan shifter had stood up for her but this was her battle and she needed to fight it if she wanted to have the last word. She tilted her head to one side and stated, "You are wrong. The reason you went on with this torment is not because I did something to deserve it."
She rolled her eyes because she didn’t even know what she had done to deserve this much pain and humiliation. She had asked, begged and even grovelled for the pack to relay the truth to her, but they were sort of unified. As if telling the truth had become taboo.
Holding Dominic’s gaze, Inez spoke to him, "You did it because you knew that I was weaker than you, because you knew that I cared for you and my friends."
Her smile turned a tad bit mocking as she continued, "And because I care about you motherfuckers, no matter how you take your anger out on me, I will not fight back. I will take your anger and unjustified accusation because I fucking liked you."
"Inez, you have no idea what you are talking about," Tao snarled as he rushed to the aid of his alpha at once.
Inez cocked a brow and shot the beta male a smirk, "Oh but I do."
She turned to look at Dominic and said to him in a clear, cold voice , "If you really believed what you said I did, then you would have killed me, Dominic. You might not like to hear this but I know you better than anyone."
"The fact that you left me alive is enough proof that somewhere you also know that there is something fishy about the so-called evidence that you speak of. But you let your anger rule your judgment, and by the time you calmed down, it was too late for you to back down."
Inez’s words brought a surge of emotions that Dominic shut down. He wasn’t wrong; he saw the woman in the surveillance recording and knew that it was her. There was nothing wrong with his judgment.
Of course, Inez knew what the man was thinking. After growing up with him, she knew that his stubbornness was like her pride. Once he had set his mind to something, he would never listen to anyone else unless they provided contradictory evidence.
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