Back to the present, Inez clutched her head and knelt on the floor.
She looked absolutely sickened and annoyed with the memories that had flashed and appeared in her mind out of nowhere. She wondered if she had to live her entire life , where she would have to worry about Dominic coming after her.
Staying on the floor, Inez waited for more than fifteen minutes before her breathing returned to normal and her headache calmed down a little. Though something inside was still drumming so hard that it made her sway on the spot, Inez clutched the counter of the kitchen as she stood up.
The floor seemed to be moving, but hey—she knew that it was not. She sucked in a breath and tried to calm herself down. It seemed impossible for her headache to ease; Inez knew this much, as she had similar attacks in the past when she was cornered and nothing seemed to work when she was in this haze.
With her hand placed against the walls and the railings, she slowly made her way upstairs. Inez was wondering whether to take another dip in the water, which might help her a little, but her body was too tired to even take a step.
Sighing, she pushed herself to the bedroom, where she pushed open the door.
All of a sudden, Inez straightened up, as she could feel that something was off. She looked around the room, but the darkness hindered her already tired body from seeing what was swaying on the bed. Fumbling a little, she found the light switch and turned it on.
As soon as the room was bathed in light, Inez saw the snake that was slithering on her smooth bedsheet. Her gaze turned cold when she saw the poisonous mamba on her bed. Her eyes turned to look outside the open window, and she knew at once that someone had caught this hibernating mamba and thrown it inside her room.
The reason must be to harm her. Maybe even kill her.
If not, she could not see the reason why a mamba that should have gone into hibernation in this chilly weather was doing so in her room. Inez, however, was unbothered.
Even though the mamba was poisonous enough to kill her in a matter of seconds, Inez was not worried. She walked over to her bed and looked down at the snake that paused and was now eyeing her with a strong look of distaste and wariness in his eyes.
When it saw Inez getting a bit too close, it raised its upper body and lunged but paused. Its head raised slightly upwards as he heard Inez say, "Did someone disturb your rest?"
The snake nodded in a dazed manner.
"Then you should go and take revenge on the person who took you out of hibernation," said Inez as she tried to turn her charm on the snake. She couldn’t do it perfectly when it came to shifters and humans, as it took too much strength, but she could do it perfectly when it came to animals.
It was easier, as animals loved sirens.
The snake tilted its head to one side before slithering out of the room and climbing up the windowsill. It didn’t take long for the mamba to disappear, and Inez, whose head was about to explode, fell on the bed. She didn’t care who was the one who sent the mamba to her room. By the morning, she would be able to get an answer anyway.
In the middle of the night, the mournful scream of a woman echoed in the pack.
Killian, who was about to go to bed, paused and turned to look in the direction from which the sound came.
His beast didn’t seem too inclined to go and check out what was going on, as he could sense that the pack member who screamed and was in panic was Ally. Through the pack bond, they could feel the terror that Ally was feeling at the moment, but something about the entire situation dissuaded them from leaving the lodge.
Killian sighed when they heard Finn’s voice through the pack bond. He knew that even if he didn’t want to go, he had to because— curse him for being the pack’s alpha.
He turned around and crossed the room to wear a pair of slippers before heading out of the room and to Ally’s lodge. It took him less than ten minutes to arrive at the lodge where Ally lived. Upon entering the lodge, he sensed fear thick in the air along with excitement and something else, which he didn’t pay attention to.
As he stepped inside the lodge, he looked at Ally, who was a sobbing mess, and then turned to look at Nyx, who was trying to comfort her. He raised his brow and remarked, "Alright? Who died?" He sure as hell hoped that someone died because he ruined his sleep schedule to come here.
As soon as he finished speaking, Ally, who was sitting on the couch, raised her head and looked at him as if she were a damsel in distress and he were her knight in shining armour. She got to her feet and rushed towards him while yelling shrilly, "KILL!"
Killian stepped aside, and the woman hurtled right into Ajax’s arms.
The man looked at the sobbing woman and peeled her off his body. He said to him, "Come on, Kill. We talked about this. You cannot just throw your trash my way. I did tell you this more than once, didn’t I?" Ajax remarked with a scowl on his face.
He was the pack’s manwhore but it seemed like even he had some standards.
When Ally heard his voice, she stopped crying. She raised her head and looked at Ajax, who looked down at her, before pushing him away. She pouted and turned to Killian before saying to him, "Kill! I was so scared just now! You have no idea what that bitch did to me."