Defy The Alpha(s) novel Chapter 684

Chapter 684: Omission Of Truth

"What did you just say?"

Angus looked like he was about to explode like a ticking time bomb. His eyes were so dark and murderous that the twins gulped, the temperature in the room suddenly cold and brittle.

The twins knew Ziva was a bitch, but doing that to Hannah? That was pure cruelty. Their father would never forgive anyone who escaped the village. Hannah practically had a death sentence hanging over her head now. She would surely die, and that would be on Ziva—not that the bitch had a heart to feel remorseful.

Ziva said with more boldness, "Hannah ran away from the village, and I can’t find her."

Suddenly, Angus’s head snapped toward the twins. He looked between Lauren and Layla as if weighing which of the girls would be more likely to confess the truth. He settled on Layla. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"Is it true?" Angus asked her. "Did Hannah really run away from home, or is there something I’m not being told?"

At once, a great tension settled in the room. For the first time, real fear flashed in Ziva’s eyes. She and Layla had clashed recently, and she’d punished her for it. Ziva knew, in that moment, Layla might seize the opportunity for revenge.

Layla’s mind was made up. She would not be part of Ziva’s mess. Not to mention, her arrogance needed to be knocked down a notch.

But before she could say a word, her twin, Lauren’s voice echoed in her head, "Don’t do it."

Layla groaned mentally. "Are you fucking kidding me?" she replied in her mind. "We have the opportunity to put our sister Ziva in the corner where she belongs, and you’re telling me not to take it?"

Lauren answered desperately, "Father would deal with her for sure, but she’ll recover. This isn’t the first time. After all, Father still needs her in the end. Ziva would come back, and what do you think she’ll do to you after putting her through that torture?"

That gave Layla pause. Then she told Lauren, "So let’s say we keep quiet, and then what next? You saw what she just did. She threw Hannah under the bus, and we’re supposed to keep quiet about it? For all we know, we might be her next victims. Wake up, Lauren! I’d rather become her enemy and sleep with my eyes wide open than be murdered in my sleep because I kept my defenses down."

"Layla," Angus said again, his voice low but thunderous with restrained rage. His gaze bore into her, dark and unrelenting. "Tell me the truth. What do you know?"

Layla opened her mouth, her features hard with resolve. Except when she spoke, her words were instead,

"Yes, Ziva is right, Hannah ran away."

Angus frowned before his expression became one of disappointment. For a moment there, he thought she had a different report for him. But once again, it seemed his children had learned to fear each other more than him.

He turned away, missing the distress on Layla’s face. As soon as the control lifted off, Layla turned to glare at her sister with a mixture of anger and betrayal. Of course, Layla had not meant to take Ziva’s side, but her sister had taken her off guard and put the words in her mouth.

"I’m sorry," Lauren whispered through their shared mindlink, guilt thick in her voice. But Layla immediately slammed the connection shut.

What a fool!

Her fists clenched until her knuckles turned bone white. Her eyes welled up with tears of betrayal, but she pushed them back. She couldn’t break down in front of her father, or he’d suspect something was up. She couldn’t let her sister be punished for Ziva’s crime.

Although now, the three of them were doomed once Angus found out the truth. Just like she feared, Ziva was a parasite that sucked the life out of everyone around her.

Meanwhile, Ziva breathed in relief. That had been far too close. But in the end, her siblings knew their place. They knew better than to challenge her.

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