Inez whipped her head and looked at the video that was playing on Tao's laptop.
"You fucking—" She turned on her feet and marched towards Tao but before she could make a move on him, someone came hurtling down at her. The man knocked her on the floor and stepped right on her head before Inez could get back on her feet.
"How many times do I need to tell you, Inez?" Dominic questioned as if he was trying to make a stubborn and rebellious kid understand that one plus one meant two and not eleven. He pressed his foot down on her head, making her stay put. "You are not a member of this pack. You are nothing but a piece of trash that I have discarded; you have no right to curse my friends, much less talk to them with that haughty tone, do you understand?"
Inez gritted her teeth; she didn't want to accept it. She didn't want to bow her head but when pain shot through her temples, she gritted out, "I understand."
Only then did Dominic pull his feet away and smile at her.
"This is what I like about you, Inez. You are a wise girl, so don't go around acting like an idiot."
Inez didn't speak; she simply climbed to her feet and looked at the video that was still playing on the screen of the laptop. She clenched her fists, realising how much her pain soothed and amused these two men. However, she didn't dare to act impulsively.
If it was her, she would have taken the risk. But this—this concerned Scar. Her sister, who had all the reasons to hate her but she didn't.
"Amusing, isn't it?" Tao remarked as if he was showing her some funny video. "I wonder what will be Scar's reaction when she finds out that the entire pack has seen it?"
Inez growled when she heard the teasing words of the man. "I thought that there was a limit to how low you two could go. It turns out that even beasts would take lessons from you two because you are worse than them."
This video was supposed to be deleted and hidden away and yet Tao had recovered it. All for the sake of controlling her.
"You don't get to tell us what we are, Inez," Dominic stated as he stepped forward and looked down at her. "The appointment is for one o'clock, and I will have you know that you are running late."
"Delete that video first."
"What if I don't?" Dominic challenged her with a quirk of his brows.
"Then you might as well kill me right the fuck now because I am not moving until that video is deleted with a promise that it will never see the light again." Inez looked straight into his eyes and stated it coldly. She would rather die than let Scar face this kind of cruel humiliation.
"Are you sure?"
"I am sure."
Inez didn't even finish replying when Dominic reached out and grabbed her by the throat. He raised his arm such that Inez's feet were dangling in air and yet she closed her eyes and accepted her fate. She didn't struggle nor did she scream for mercy.
In her life, if she owed a person her life, then it was Scarlet and she would go to any lengths to protect that girl.
Inez felt her chest feeling stuffy as if cotton had been filled into her lungs; black spots started dancing in front of her eyes and a horrible ringing sound that made her head pound started to ring in her ears.
Just when she thought that she was going to die, the grip around her throat loosened and Inez fell on the floor like a rag doll. She coughed and sputtered while clutching and nursing her throat.
"Do it, Tao." Dominic looked at the woman with a sadistic gleam in his eyes. He felt relieved seeing the pain in Inez's eyes when she saw the video that she had gone to lengths to delete.
He never wanted to target Scarlet because he didn't have a feud with her; it was Inez he wanted to torment.
"Sure," Tao looked at Inez and smirked before turning the video off and deleting it.
"Hurts, doesn't it?" Dominic crouched down and knotted his fingers in Inez's hair before pulling her head back so that she was looking at him. "Did it feel good?"
The woman looked at him with hatred, anger, and pain, but the one emotion that Dominic wanted to see never appeared.
Guilt.
He wanted Inez to feel guilty for what she had done. But the woman didn't seem to realise it or maybe she was too good of an actress; she knew how to mask that one emotion.
He let go of her hair and said, "Now get your arse fuck out of my office."
"Your oath," Inez coughed and spoke in a hoarse voice. "You forgot your oath."
Dominic had to hand it to Inez. Even though she was battered and bruised, she cared about her sister a lot. Even when he choked her until she was half dead, she was still inclined toward safeguarding Scarlet's safety.
Shame. She didn't give a ratass about Abby.
He sneered and promised, "I won't do it; I give you my word as your alpha. I am not you, Inez."
And there it was—that confusion again, as if she had no idea what she had done. But he knew that she was pretending. He had seen her enter his room in the surveillance recording and had collected enough evidence that proved that it was she who stole the Tears of Siren.
She killed his sister because Abby meant nothing to her.
Seeing her fiercely protecting Scarlet only made him pissed off. He raised his foot and kicked her on the shoulder before snarling, "Get out! Get the fuck out!" He roared at not only Inez but at the injustice of Moon Goddess.
Why? Why take his Abby away? Why let Scarlet be alive and do well?
If he lost his dearest little sister, then Inez deserved to lose her too!