Page 49 of Moon Cursed

I thought she’d rip his head off. Especially when he winked at her.

“You are so sexy right now.”

“Focus, woman. I’ll fuck you after.”

I rolled my eyes, hiding my smile a lot better than the leaders were hiding their discomfort. All of a sudden, they weren’t looking so arrogantly smug.

“Actually, I don’t know how cool I am with being recorded,” Jayson, the water leader, said. I was looking into the blue eyes of the weak-ass nepo baby himself. “You never said anything about that.”

“No, what I said was that this forum would be the start of the new laws created and put forth by the clan leaders. What? Did you think if you didn’t tell anyone else about that promise, you could deny it if I ever did?”

Seven faces hardened in unison. That was a big, fat yes.

“Whoops, too bad,” I sang. “Everyone’s going to know, and everyone’s going to see. Matter of fact, Eddy baby, how many people are tuned into the live right now?”

“One hundred thousand and counting, baby.”

“Excellent.”

Growls sounded through their screens.

“Enough of that, let’s get started.” I moved closer to the podium, making sure the mic picked me up loud and clear. “First, I’m going to give you the new laws we’ve already agreed upon so that you’re not getting a bunch of repeats. After, the students will run the forum.” I beamed at Jayson. “First, the approved jobs lists are gone. Every wolf everywhere will have the right to apply for a job they’re trained and qualified for—regardless of their wolf type.”

Magnus snorted. “Perposterous. What use is an omega police officer who can be commanded to get back in their cruiser and drive away? We have the laws we do for a reason, girl.”

“Yeah, that’s right,” the alphas went off.

“Exactly.”

“It’s not oppression, it’s common sense.”

I ignored their heckling. “We have the laws we do because we’re too ridiculous and too pathetic to enforce said laws against alphas and betas.”

Meya, the moon leader, sputtered. “I beg your pardon!”

“What Magnus just described is evading arrest, which is illegal the last I checked. Since when do we blame innocent people for having crimes committed against them? That’s what criminals freaking do. Commit crimes,” I drew out. “And when an alpha commits a crime like, for example, using compulsion to evade arrest, what if instead of going—oh well, it happens. We hit the bastard with double the penalties and triple the fees.

“Which brings me to my next suggestion,” I plowed on as they all started talking at once. “Harsher punishments for power-based crimes.”

“You have no idea what you’re—!”

“There was a serial rapist running around free in the fire clan for years,” I bellowed, blowing up six brows and shutting two mouths. “He used his alpha voice to force himself on omega women. So many of them reported him, and nothing was done! Maybe if all those blessed alpha officers had done their job and cut his fucking dick off, he’d have learned to use his voice nicely!”

“Yeah!” nearly every woman in the room screamed—Nia loudest of all.

Yes, I was betraying my temple vow by telling them what Mason told me, but in his case, the rules no longer applied. Mason gave himself away that night when my fates and I burst in on him with Nia. Once he revealed himself to be a rapist, the secret was out. Therefore there wasn’t a secret for me to keep.

It was tricky navigating the rules. Mostly because Luame was temperamental and was liable to change said rules whenever she felt like it, but in Mason’s case, I had a feeling I was safe.

She didn’t like that rapist piece of shit either.

Mara leaned in close to the screen. I knew her as the fire clan leader, and the sister of the woman Orion’s father killed, but I’d never seen her in person before.

She also wasn’t what I pictured. Mara took over the clan after I ran away that fateful night. The woman looking down on me was slender, pale, and dressed simply in a plain white top with no makeup or jewelry. Every other leader was dressed like the rich people they were.

“I’m not aware of any serial rapist among my clan, or that reports were made against him,” Mara said.

I looked her in the eyes. “Exactly.”

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