Page 113 of Claimed By My Fiancé's Brother

Faster than I could blink, he clapped my hands into silver cuffs.

It took me a moment to comprehend what just happened.

“Dylan, what are you doing?”

Dylan offered up a guileless smile and took my cuffed hands in his.

“Don’t worry, Eleanor, you’ll be free from his manipulations soon,” he reassured me. “Once I kill him in this battle as planned, you’ll have free will again, and we can finally be together.”

My heart stopped.

As he planned?

There was something about the way Dylan spoke that made me instantly realize what he’d done.

“You sabotaged the treaty,” I said.

Dylan’s jaw clenched and unclenched, but he didn’t deny it.

“I made a decision that will protect our pack in the long run.”

He’d put the lives of his people in danger just to kill Alexander?

Had I ever truly known Dylan?

The door of the receiving room opened, and a stone-faced pack warrior stepped inside.

Dylan inclined his head in my direction.

“Lock her up in the dungeons. She is to have no visitors until I return.”

He was going to go after Alexander. With the silver on my wrists, I was powerless to stop it, but I couldn’t just stand by and do nothing.

The guard reached for me, but I headbutted him and launched myself at Dylan.

Dylan cursed and shoved me off him, but not before I bit his cheek, the tangy, coppery taste of his blood flooding my mouth.

I spat out his blood and bared my canines at him.

“If you hurt Alexander, I’ll hunt you down myself.”

Dylan clutched his bleeding cheek, his eyes wide with surprise before his features hardened and he turned to the guard.

“Take her!” he growled.

The guard picked me off the ground despite my struggles. I kicked harder, almost freeing myself, but the guard’s hold was secure.

Then I felt a prick on the side of my neck, and the world went dark.

When I opened my eyes, I was in a cell. Each of my limbs was shackled with silver chains to the wall behind me.

I couldn’t feel Lara, much less summon her strength.

I was trapped.

I had no idea how long it had been since Dylan had ordered my arrest or when he planned to attack Alexander, but I needed to get a warning out to my mate.

For that, I needed to find a way out of there and?—

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