33 - Terri's POV

33 - Terri's POV
Terri

I don’t usually hate people because I can always get my revenge as soon as I’m offended.
I never keep any feelings bottled up because I take it out as soon as I feel it.
I’m horny, I find a girl to fuck. I’m happy, I go to the club. When I get angry, I simply find a dark corner, an unsuspecting victim, or the offender and punch the living lights out of them.
That is possible with everyone except my brother Tyler.
My anger has always been bottled up. Not once since we were born have I been able to get it out on him, and this morning was no exception.
He’d punched me relentlessly, feral and without any restraint, and not once during those two hours did I dare to raise my hand against him.
All I could do was my best at defense, trying to protect my internal organs.
But even then, after all of that, I still burst a couple of ribs, my nose got dislocated, and let's not talk about the numerous spots that got internal bleeding.
He bled too, from his bursted knuckles.
While I’ve spent the whole day curled up in pain with my mom and a nurse in attendance while my wolf healed the injuries.
I could have gotten meds, but my pride wouldn’t allow me.
And that’s the reason why I’ve been writhing in pain since morning, healing like I’m some weak omega when I have a freaking alpha wolf. All because I released a video with Zia in it.
For one, she’s my mate, and I can do anything the fuck I want with her.
But the moon goddess just had to punish me for sins uncommitted.
Because that was the only explanation for why I would have to share my mate, just one mate, with someone as annoying as Tyler.
The worst person I’ve ever come across.
He’d fought like an emotional bitch when we both knew that none of this had anything to do with emotions. It was just him being a plain bitch because he didn’t want to share.
Tyler’s possessiveness is nothing I could ever compete with.
No, not even our father could compete with him when he wanted to be with mother. Yes, he was that scary. He didn’t hesitate to draw blood just to prove a point.
And this time mine was drawn without giving me a chance at explaining.
Suddenly the knocking at my door drew me out of my thoughts.
"I said I don’t want to see anyone," I growled with irritation and turned painfully in my bed.
"You don’t have a choice," Tyler’s voice rumbled like thunder as he came bashing into the door. The body of the guard positioned outside fell in, but he only kicked him with his leg before stepping in.
"What a nuisance," he muttered to himself, before his sharp eyes fell on me.
"What do you want with me?" I felt like a deer with a broken leg while his terrifying wolf eyes examined my body, raking fear inside of me.
"Why are you still pretending to be sick in bed? Is this your attempt at pretending to not know what you did wrong?" he asked, and I wanted to roll my eyes and spit at him.
Throw a tantrum, then beat him up. But all I could afford was a glare at him.
"It’s about that video of Zia, isn’t it?" I asked, and he scoffed dismissively.
His eyes were closed as he folded his hands and crossed one leg over the other while his back rested on my award shelf.
The prizes I’d received for my 'good deeds' including one citizen award tumbled and fell off.
The force wasn’t enough to shatter anything.
But having all proofs of my doing good falling to the ground for no good reason except that his pompous ass wouldn’t sit on my chair was enough to get my wolf angry and rearing for a fight.
"If you knew that she was mine, then why did you still go ahead to make a fool out of yourself? And why the fuck do people still have the video?" he threw a punch backwards, crashing my Best Student of the Year award into the wall and making me watch as it cracked, fell to the ground, then shattered into pieces.
But I couldn’t even afford a whimper, talkless of fighting back.
"Is that all she is to you? An object that you can be possessive of?" I scowled and huddled in the corner of my bed. It was the only way I could retort.
He scoffed and cocked his head in silence like he was waiting for me to continue to talk.
"She is also my mate and Cain’s mate. So whether you like to share or not, the moon goddess clearly didn’t give you a choice on this one," I said, my back straightening with each word.
He dropped his hanging leg to the ground, and I drew my legs closer with a shivery breath.
"Don’t come close!" I raised my hand, ready to protect my face.
"Why not? We are brothers, Terri. Stop making me out to be some kind of monster. I just wanted to step closer to hear the gibberish you were saying." He sounded right above my head, and at this point, I didn’t dare to look up at him.
Why did his tone suddenly sound so menacing? A chill descended on every part of my body.
"It’s the truth though," I hated the tremble of my voice.
"Oh? Then why hasn’t Cain released a video of him getting a blowjob yet? And I can’t even count the number of times they’ve done it in school." My face contorted.
That whore. Then why was she acting so innocent and pretending to be sick.
The last trace of guilt washed off my body.
"You don’t have any proof that I did it," I doubled back to all the procedures I took. "I could have been framed," I shrugged.
"Do you take me for a fool and think that just because you recorded with a burner phone and disposed of it after, nothing would be tied to you?" My heart constricted and a new level of fear descended on me. It felt so suffocating.
How did he know?
Not even Joyce knew how I recorded the video, so how?
There was no use denying it now.
"Come on, I was in a tight spot. Joyce kept threatening me. What did you expect me to do? Besides, the video didn’t show her face!" I shouted and shot my face up just in time to see the swing of his fist.
"Say that again." The punch landed on my barely healed jaw with a crack.
I think he broke something, my wolf mentioned like it wasn’t already so obvious from the sound.
This was the reason why I wasn’t chosen as the first alpha. We could be angry together, but my wolf never knew how to carry my emotions into power. Always retreating like a fool.
"You can fool Zia with that pathetic lie of yours, but don’t forget that I know your dirtiest secrets, even the ones you think no one saw." He leaned in, his cold breath fanning the top of my head while I shivered under the administration of his terror.
Why was I living life like this?
I was an alpha too. I should be fucking feared.
But here I was whimpering while my wolf continued asking me to beg for forgiveness.
Forgiveness my foot.
As if he read my mind at that moment, he made a taunting move of flipping my bangs away from my eyes.
"Make sure you delete every trace of that video on everyone's phone then apologize to Zia in front of everyone."
"What? Then everyone will know I did it. How the fuck am I even supposed to..." the swinging of the door made me pause and look around for a moment.
Tyler was gone.
"Asshole, he always does that."