Defy The Alpha(s) novel Chapter 677

Chapter 677: Your Wish Came True

Hannah was dead asleep in her cell when a bucket of ice-cold water was splashed over her.

"Fuck!" She jerked upright with a strangled gasp, the shock ripping through her so hard she slapped her palms against the floor to keep from sliding.

Water dripped from her lashes as she snapped her head up—and oh, well, there he was.

The lion shifter stood outside her cell, staring at her with all the emotion of a broken toaster, an empty bucket dangling from his hand.

That bargain-bin Mufasa!

"Are you fucking insane?!" Hannah spat, hair plastered to her face and breath puffing out in furious shivers. "What the hell is wrong with you?!"

Her fists clenched until her knuckles whitened, her glare sharp enough to skin him alive even as the cold gnawed through her soaked clothes and made her whole body tremble.

But Taryn wasn’t moved by her anger. He calmly set the bucket down and asked with a voice cold as steel, "Are you ready to talk now, human? Why are you here?"

Hannah looked up at him, amused. Then she pushed herself to her feet and walked to the front of the cell.

"I told you," she drawled, "I’m not saying a word until you get me Violet. She’s the only one I’ll speak to."

She leaned her elbows against the bars, tilting her head, staring at him with unbothered arrogance.

Hannah knew her attitude infuriated him. She saw it in the subtle flare of his nostrils. He was good at keeping his face blank, but she had trained herself to read people. And right now, he was at his wits’ end with her.

Since they captured her, they’d been trying to get her to talk. And honestly, Hannah considered it a miracle they hadn’t tried physical torture yet — maybe even creatures like them had laws about hitting a child. Not that she was exactly a child. Well, whatever.

Or maybe because she hadn’t actually harmed anyone, their options were limited. Earlier today they’d even dragged in someone with magic to dig into her mind, but Hannah resisted with everything in her and they left frustrated.

But staring into Taryn’s icy blue eyes now, something told her he wouldn’t hesitate to hurt her if the need came.

"Also," Hannah continued, "if you wanted to get me naked, all you had to do was say the word. You didn’t need to start with water foreplay." She winked at him. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

To be honest, Hannah had no idea what the hell had come over her. She did not usually flirt with men who locked her up — not that she had many chances to flirt with boys back in Duskmoon Village — but annoying Taryn brought her a weird sort of satisfaction.

At first, it looked like he didn’t understand what she meant. Then his gaze dragged over her soaked clothes clinging to her body, and instead of desire, his eyes darkened with pure rage.

"You insolent human," he hissed.

Before she could blink, he was at the bars, his hand shooting through the gap to clamp around her jaw. The grip was so tight her eyes watered, but Hannah didn’t flinch. She stared straight back at him, fierce and unyielding.

"The only reason you can still run that mouth," he said through clenched teeth, "is because the Queen hasn’t given her orders yet. You think you’re tough? I haven’t even begun with you."

His grip tightened, the anger in his eyes turning lethal. "Moreover, I’m not interested in children."

"A year and two months," Hannah blurted.

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