Ariella’s POV
Sophia’s scream shattered the air like glass exploding across marble.
“WHAT?!” She scrambled up from her knees so fast her fancy dress tangled around her legs, eyes wild with pure, unfiltered rage.
“You’re siding with a servant? A nobody mute over me…your fiancée?! I won’t stand for this! I’m telling my father! I’m telling the Alpha of my pack right now! They’ll hear how you’re humiliating me like some common w***e! This is unacceptable, Alpha Rion!”
She spun on her heel, storming toward the door like a princess who’d just been told her crown was fake. But Rion’s voice cracked through the room like a whip.
“Where the hell do you think you’re going?” he growled, low and deadly. “She hasn’t slapped you yet. You haven’t passed out yet. Stay put, Sophia, until she’s done wi
