Chapter 75: SEVENTY-FIVE

Betrayal 2 Ava’s eyes doubled as they slowly fluttered open. It took a while for her to drift back into consciousness because of her pounding headache from the blow, she couldn’t remember much only that something terribly heavy hit her on the head, and when her eyes finally cleared, she realized she was tied up to a chair, in a dark room dimly illuminated with a small white bulb. She tried shaking to get out of the restraints, but whoever it was that tied up these knots meant serious business as it was impossible for her to get free.

Seeing as she couldn’t get herself out of the situation, she tried calling for help.

“Hello! Can anybody hear me??? Hello!!!!!!” She yelled to the best of her ability.

The thud of footsteps she began to hear above her made her realize that she was in a basement, but whose basement? Who did this to her? The basement door creaked and let in the very answer to the question she asked in her mind as Nicole walked in, of course, she’s the one who hit her on the head, she’s the last person she saw before she got hit so it explains that she’s the one who brought her here. But why? And for what? What had she done to her friend or rather, the person she thought was her friend to deserve this kind of treatment?

Nicole entered, but she didn’t come alone, as someone else followed behind her; Ethan.

Ava was shocked as well as astounded, Ethan was in on this too. What in the goddess’s name was going on here?

“Why am I tied up here?” She asked looking between Nicole and Ethan.

“Hello bunny,” Ethan grinned in her direction. “Of course, no doubt you’ll be wondering why you’re here. I’ll tell you why just now but first…”

Nicole then brought out an electric taser from her pocket which Ethan collected and wasted no time in bringing it to contact Ava’s skin, releasing shock waves through her body, she screamed as the jolts of electricity shot through her, her eyes were lined with tears as she unbelievingly looked Ethan in the eye, wondering what he was doing all this for. When he was satisfied, he turned off the taser and handed it back to Nicole, who also watched Ava’s cries in ecstasy, grinning.

“I will let you know the reason why you’re here. At least you deserve to know before you die.”

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Ava was weak, so weak, the bang on her head and the electricity shock from Ethan almost made her want to give up, but no, she couldn’t, the betrayal from these people hurt worse than the physical pain she was feeling at that moment. She then heard Ethan’s voice continue to speak.

“You are here bunny… because you are too smart, and you know how I always joke that your smartness will kill you one day, well that day has finally come.”

Nicole cut in. “I told you that she would have never supported you the way I did, thank the goddess for her kidnap if not she’d have exposed you….”

“Shut up,” Ethan snapped, then turned back to Ava, smiling wickedly stretching his lips. “Nicole is right though, if I ever told you that I had plans to overthrow your alpha… you, his dearest Luna would have never supported me. You should have just remained wherever you were with whatever it was that made you leave here… that made you leave your own joining ceremony.”

Ava began mumbling, her body was weak from the shocks but she still took the struggle to ask the question.

“D-d-did you k-k-kill R-R-Ray…??”

“You see bunny, you’re just too smart, and now look… you’ve realized it all and you already know too much, too much for you to still be alive.”

“P-p-please… j-j-just let me go, I won’t tell anyone I swear.”

Ethan let out an empty laugh. “Of course, we both know that’s not going to happen… I’ll admit it’s such pity that killing you will be just as easy as how I killed Ray, using his weakness against him was a piece of cake; his phobia for water came quite in handy,” he revealed as he let out another wicked laugh.

“That fool… he didn’t even know what pushed him…” Nicole let out, joining Ethan in laughter.

“He screamed your name while struggling with the water, calling Ava… Ava…. His dearest Ava…

An alpha that behaves like a little girl, the fool probably thought that you’ll jump out of nowhere to save him.” Ethan then strode forward and gripped Ava’s cheeks with his claws to face him, piercing her skin.

The pain bit right through her as she squealed.

“If only he knew… If only he died knowing what his dearest Luna did, his precious left him to be in the arms of another man. The fool had the picture right in front of him at the peace ball but still had no idea. It sickens me how much time I wasted before killing him, but I knew I couldn’t do it until I got rid of you first. Thank the goddess for your kidnap, and now it will be as if you never returned…”

Tears streamed down her cheeks as she waited for Ethan to strike the final blow, she deserved this, all of it, she should have known it all along, Ethan’s anger spurts, Nicole’s sudden clinginess to her, the fact that Nicole spent more time here with Ethan than her mate, she saw little signs of it before but chose not to see the bad in her friends and now look what’s happened. Ethan killed Ray. It’s still so hard to believe that Ethan killed Ray.

Ethan stretched his lips wider as he stared at her right in the face. “It’s time for your punishment, dear Ava.”

The basement doors suddenly burst open and a loud dominant voice rang loud through the room, a familiar voice. Ava smiled weakly, already knowing who it was.

“Get your filthy claws off my mate!!!”