Chapter 39

••• Victoria’s POV ••• Suddenly, there was frantic knocking at the door and Elijah's head head away from my neck. “Alpha, Alpha, there’s a crowd of werewolves at the pack’s gates!” Beta Hendrix’s urgent voice came through. “They all claimed they’d been poisoned by the faulty “Moonlight” perfume, and they are demanding answers and also compensation! The situation is spiralling out of control! We are afraid we can’t hold them off! We even heard that they are going to bring in news reporters if we don’t give in to their demands! Elijah hesitated, and I held my breath. For a moment, I thought he was going to ignore it and deal with marking me first. But then, with a curse, he let me go. He shot me a warning glare. “Don’t even think about trying to escape.” Then he strode out of the room, locking the door behind him. I collapsed onto the floor, sobbing. I didn’t know what would happen if he had succeeded in marking me again. Since I wasn’t pinned to the wall by Elijah and fought him off, it