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chapter seventeen. mothers
BEFORE any of them could even consider their options with the return of Jennifer Blake, demanding to be kept safe so they could save two people they cared about from her, Derek charged. In his anger, he had stormed past both Stiles and Alani, the former moving away as quickly as possible so as not to get trampled on. The werewolf threw things to the ground in his haste, not caring whether they were important or not. All he wanted to do was wrap his hands around the woman's throat until the life faded from her eyes.
If it were any other circumstance, that thought would've terrified Alani Mordor. She had never been one for violence━━ever. Hell, it wasn't even until she turned up at Beacon Hills and met everyone else that she'd been involved in such things. But, with her new reality slowly beginning to sink in as each day passed, each each new problem raised up from below, she came to terms with the fact that she didn't care━━at least, not right then.
She wouldn't care if Derek Hale succeeded in his haste to kill the woman who had managed to deceive them all. She wouldn't care if Derek Hale chocked the life from his eyes, letting her soul float away into the dark abyss. Jennifer Blake had dragged everyone through hell and back for weeks━━it was the least she deserved; no mercy.
But, then another thought crossed her mind. No matter how satisfied she'd feel with Jennifer Blake no longer on the playing board, they needed her. The woman said it herself━━without her, none of them would be able to save Cora from whatever was slowly tearing her insides apart and killing her; they would knew find out where Sheriff Stilinski was being kept, unable to save him from such a terrible demise. They needed her, which meant they couldn't kill her.
Coming to that exact same conclusion, Scott rushed forwards to stop Derek's attack, wrapping his arms around his former Alpha and encasing him within his grasp, not allowing him any movement. "Derek, wait━━!"
"She was trying to get out," Derek accused the woman, who only continued to stand nonchalantly, completely unfazed by the previous attack on her.
She sighed. "I was trying to keep from getting killed━━you can't blame me for that."
Alani had no idea what to feel; she was at a crossroads. On one hand, there was no way they could trust her━━any of them. She had deceived every single person in that very room using any excuse she could, and even tried to kill one of them... she'd tried to kill Lydia! Jennifer Blake was a woman of deception, and they couldn't take her words as the truth until they saw some sort of evidence.
Yet, Alani understood what she meant. Maybe she knew the powerful the Alpha twins had, and knew both Scott and Derek surely wouldn't stand a chance against them. Maybe she knew they'd be after her in a millisecond, activating her fight or flight response. If it was Alani in that situation, she'd have run, too. But, then again, Alani could exactly imagine herself in such a situation━━she'd never kill someone for a human sacrifice, no matter the rewards at the end.
