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“Put value in yourself, and expect nothing less. Validate yourself and you’ll never need a man to tell you,” she adds.
“I know.”
“Mom, I need your phone,” I mind link, unsure if Axton is listening upstairs.
Mine is sitting on the bedside table, and I am not stupid. Axton will be all over me if I pick it up. She slides it over to me while I warm the milk and make a bottle.
“What’s your value, Elena? Can’t preach it to these women if you don’t believe it yourself,” Sondra questions.
Nearly all these women came from domestic violence situations or controlling abusive Alphas, and here I am, as their Alpha, showing them my mate can walk all over me.
“Not anymore!” Lexa states.
“Not anymore,” I reply in return.
“Infinite, unfathomable, I am capable because I’m still breathing. I control my destiny because I’m the one living it, and I bow to no one,” I huff, picking up the phone.
“So, why are you giving him a discount on your value? Or did you just temporarily forget?” Sondra questions, and I hold up the phone.
“I’m not!”
“Good girl.” She nods as my mother sits her tea in front of her.
I hear footsteps above us, and I point to the ceiling, knowing he is moving around up there since my room is directly above. Opening her phone, I search for Marco’s number, sending him a message that Axton breached the anonymity clauses.
Setting the phone down, my mother stops on the other side of the kitchen island. “What did you do?” she whispers, though I can see the smirk on her face.
“Reminding him,” I tell her, and the phone buzzes.
“I hoped he wouldn’t be stupid enough. Give me an hour,” Marco replies.
Axton may have the council in his pocket, but he’ll never own Marco. Marco is family to our pack, and now Axton will learn that not all council members can be bought, and neither can I with his empty threats.
Chapter
Seventy-Five
Chapter 75
I slide the phone over to my mother, and she grabs it. Glancing down, I watch her eyes move across the message, and she chuckles.
With a sigh, she lifts her gaze to mine. “This will make things worse, anger him. He will retaliate,” she tells me, and I shrug, uncaring.
He made his bed. Now he gets to roll around in it. Hopefully, the damn sheets strangle some sense into him.
“And by then, I will have him by the balls along with every Alpha in that city,” I tell her, and she raises an eyebrow at me.
“And how do you plan on doing that?” she questions.
“Have you forgotten who was the city’s accountant, Mother? I know all their shady trades, and finding Axton’s won’t be hard. I just need space to dig it up, and I can’t do that with him breathing down my neck.”
“But you haven’t got the pack back from your father yet. If Axton retaliates, we are no match for him,” she reminds me.
“I will have the pack. I’ll make sure of it. I will head into the city tomorrow and check some things out. Dad either stands down, or I take him down with the rest of them. That city belonged to your family, my family. I am going to remind them who really owns it. And it is not Alpha Derrick or Alpha Axton, but Alpha Bardot,” I tell her, grabbing the bottle and walking toward the stairs.
“Oh, this is the most excitement I have had since I tortured the bastard that murdered my mother,” Sondra chuffs, making me stop on the steps.
I turn to give her a questioning look. Mom stares at her in utter horror.
