chapter 10

**Tiana**

tini!' Rina shrieked, barging into my hospital ward. Neither she nor Giselle gave me time to acknowledge their presence, they tackled me down in a suffocating hug. I gasped for air as they held me so tight. Elle pulled away first, but Rina refused to let go of me.

'First of all, since when did tini get involve?'

'tiana, tini, get it?' Rina giggled. Elle laughed and shook her head.

'You can let go of me now,' I coughed.

'Oh, sorry,' I squeaked when she tightened her hands. 'Is that better?'

'Carina,' I gasped. She laughed and let go of me. I breathe in sharply, coughing at the same time. 'Thanks for plotting with the enemy to kill me.'

'You're welcome,' she winked at me.

'What are you girls doing here?'

'We wanted to see you, how you are fairing. Alpha Lucian banned everyone from coming but we risked it... Hey, what did you say to him? He was really pissed off when he left here about three hours ago.' Elle replied.

'Four,' Rina corrected. 'And yeah, what did you say to him?'

'Nothing more than I hate him.'

'Really? Because Jastun is dead because of that statement,' my eyes widened. 'Yes, he was furious he walked up to Jastun and snapped his neck. I wasn't told, I was there.'

'Elle, that is the half story,' Rina said gossipingly. 'I'll give you the full gist,' she shifted closer. 'So, after you were brought here, Alpha Lucian came to me and asked me what happened and who hurt you, I told him everything and even added a little pepper. After that, he returned here. He stayed with you for a day, him and Rick. After that day, the purging began.'

'What purging?'

'He couldn't call out all who hurt you, so he called out the ones that hurt you most. Jastun, Keisha, Kimberly...' My interest was on Kimberly. 'He yelled at them for disobeying his order, for feeling they could step on him like he was nothing; his command was nothing. He summoned the entire pack and stripped each and every one of them off their titles and ranks. Jastun lost the same eye he made you lose, same as Jastun. Kim suffered what he made you suffer. He not only had her left hand burnt with fire, he threw her into a tub of sewer water and then flogged and left out for three days just like you did. He even whipped her against the tub so she'll break her ribs just like you did.

Remember geisha had you dragged along thorns and that other blonde wolf made you crawl on your knees with that thing on your back? They suffered too. It was amazing. If it wasn't for the fact that Rick was the one who cried on your behalf, everyone would have thought you are his mate. Lucian loves Rick a lot, can kill an entire pack to please the small boy. Do you know that Kim died last night?' My mouth fell open. 'You went through hell, you didn't die, she went through a little and she died. She's a weakling. Even those teenagers that used you to play ball were punished, same as the man that kicked you down the stairs. Lucian threw him from the roof top. He didn't die but he broke his legs for seven hours.'

'lucian did all that for me?'

'Rick,' Elle corrected. I smiled widely, knowing he did it for me. A strange satisfaction settled in my stomach, Kim was gone.

Mom said don't kill any wolf, she didn't say they can't kill themselves.

And that my dear Tiana, is true.