Chapter 14: Chapter 14: From My Hands
Luca's POV
The halls stretched long and dim in front of me, but I barely noticed them as | walked with a rage boiling beneath
my skin. My fists were clenched so tight that the pressure burned my knuckles.
Every servant | passed dropped their eyes and moved out of my way, sensing the storm in my expression. |
didn’t need to growl or snap orders. My anger was thick enough to choke them all.
Selena had stood in front oflike a creature resurrected from ashes, yelling like she had been the one
wronged. She had spit at my feet, her voice torn and wild, accusingof cruelty—me, the son of a woman she
murdered.
She had screamed that | was a monster. She dared to twist the truth like that. If | were a monster, she wouldn't
have had the chance to raise her voice, let alone scream in my face. She wouldn't be breathing.
Still, her words echoed in my head louder than | wanted to admit. The brokenness in her voice had cut deep. |
told myself | didn’t care, but the truth was | had seen something in her eyes—something I couldn't ignore.
She had been angry, yes, but it wasn’t just rebellion. It wasn’t pride. It was something deeper, darker. It was the
kind of rage that only cfrom someone who had swallowed their pain for too long.
| couldn’t understand it. Since the day we took her in, she hadn't made a sound. She didn’t resist when we took
her name. She didn’t protest when we branded her. Not a word when we tossed her in the dirt and gave her
nothing. Even when she cried during that first night in the slave quarters, she didn’t scream.
Not like this. So what made her snap now? What could push her to beat omegas bloody in the middle of the
courtyard? | knew she wasn’t irrational. If she were, she would've caused chaos the moment she stepped into
our territory.
My boots slammed against the stone as | entered the lower hall leading to the servant quarters. The courtyard
was already in view, and even from a distance, | could see the chaos that still lingered from her explosion.
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hers, most of it not. It was the scene of something far worse than disobedience. It was personal.
The air shifted the moment | entered. Omegas froze in place, their eyes wide, their bodies shrinking like prey.
The fear in the air was suffocating. But | wasn't here to tear them apart. | needed to know what happened. The
facts.
The head maid wasn’t among them. One of the others whispered that she had been taken to the healer after
sustaining serious injuries. My jaw clenched, not because | pitied her—I didn’t—but because | didn’t know what
the hell happened to cause such a collapse in order under my command. | didn’t tolerate disorder.
| stepped into the center of the mess and turned toward the group, letting my gaze sweep across them. The fear
was clear, but not a single one of them spoke. | had no tfor silence.
"lI want answers," | said, my voice cutting through the air like a blade. "Now. From the beginning. Not one lie. Not
one detail left out."
When no one responded, | let the full weight of my Alpha voice ring out across the space.
"Speak."
The effect was immediate. One maid dropped to her knees, her face pale as she began to stammer something
about Selena attacking her, about rebellion, about betrayal. She claimed Selena struck first...that she disobeyed
the head maid and start beating her.
It was pathetic. Her eyes darted to the broken table behindas though it would defend her.
Before | could even respond, a voice spoke up from the side.
"| saw everything, Alpha."
It cfrom a young male omega | vaguely recognized. He was small but steady, and though his hands
trembled slightly, his voice didn’t waver. He took a step forward, lowered his head in respect, and continued.
"The maid lied. She sent selene to your brother Lucian’s chambers on purpose. She said it would bring her
punishment and set an example. Selena didn’t resist. She just did her work. She didn’t fight until she was
confronted again—cornered, actually. The maid screamed at her, threatened her. Tried to slap her. That was
when Selena snapped."
His words settled intolike ice in my bloodstream.
"She caught the slap. She didn’t hit first. She tried to defend herself. Then the head maid came. And she didn’t
listen either. She believed the lie. Ordered Selena to be dragged through the quarters and punished in front of
everyone. Selena begged her to stop. She tried to explain. But no one believed her. But when head maid start
talking bad about her mother, she lost all of her composure and start beating her like this."
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"No—Alpha, please—" she sobbed, falling at my feet. "Please, | didn’t mean to—"
| didn’t even look at her as | turned away. Her voice faded behind me.
My thoughts were a storm of questions | couldn't answer.
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unsettled me. | hated that part of me
wondered if we had made a mistake.
No. | wasn’t weak. | knew what she had done. | knew what she had taken from us.
But somehow, everything was becoming less clear.
And | didn’t like it.