Sacrificed to My Sister: The Mate They Stole From Me Chapter 07
Several neighbors stopped to watch.
My mother seized the opportunity and grabbed my arm.
“You hear that? Everyone knows you’re the one in the wrong.
Come home, apologize to Ellie, and we’ll put this behind us.
Your father’s getting worse by the day. The stress you’re causing is going to kill him!”
Ellie stood behind Kaelen, her shoulders shaking with exaggerated sobs.
Malice gleamed in Kaelen’s eyes as he reached for my wrist.
Everyone’s going to see what you really are today, Harper!”
He never got the chance to touch me.
I had already pressed the emergency alert button on my phone.
A Blackwood Enforcer patrolling near a streetlight gave me a
quick nod, then spoke into his radio,
Within minutes, two patrol cars arrived.
Two Enforcers stepped out and scanned the crowd.
“Who activated the distress signal?”
I held up my phone. “I did.”
Kaelen’s expression froze.
One Enforcer approached him.
“Sir, you’re causing a disturbance on private pack territory.
This woman has filed a complaint against you.”
My mother protested. “Officers, we are her family! We came to take her home!”
Family?” The Enforcer looked from me to my mother. “Is she
still registered under your household in the Pack Registry?”
Kaelen finally went pale.
The Enforcer’s expression hardened.
“Sir, keep harassing her and you’ll be detained for inciting interpack conflict.”
Ellie lifted her tear streaked face and tugged on Kaelen’s sleeve.
“Kaelen, we should go.”
Kaelen clenched his jaw and glared at me, hatred burning in his eyes.
In the end, he turned and got back into the car.
My mother hesitated, but my father grabbed her arm.
“Get in.”
As the cars pulled away, Ellie stared at me through the tinted
window with naked loathing.
I watched them disappear around the corner, then thanked
window with naked loathing.
I watched them disappear around the corner, then thanked, the Enforcers.
“Call us immediately if they come back,” one of them said.
“I will.”
The neighbors dispersed.
An elderly woman carrying a basket of groceries paused beside me.
“You okay, honey?”
I am fine.”
She studied me for a moment, then continued down the sidewalk.
I went back inside my building.
The motion sensor light flickered on, just as it had the day I arrived.
I climbed to the fourth floor, locked my door, and slid the
dead bolt into place..
I left my bag by the entrance and plugged in my phone.
Then I opened my terminal and pulled up the project brief I
had been working on.
The window was open, letting in the distant sounds of the city.
The noise of the city drifted through the open window, but
inside, everything was calm. I took a sip of water and went back to work.