Chapter41: The Accusations

Chapter 41: The Accusations  XENOIS The drive home felt like the longest twenty minutes of my life. My hands were gripping the steering wheel so tightly that my knuckles had gone white, and I could feel my wolf pacing beneath my skin, it was also agitated by the numerous emotions that were going through me. What I had witnessed in my own kitchen kept replaying in my mind.  Lumina's face, filled with rage as she pressed Sophia's hand against the burning stove. I could smell the scorched hand and I could still hear Sophia's screams of pain and terror.  The way my mate had looked at me afterward – not with shame or regret, but satisfied about what she had done. There had to be an explanation somewhere. There had to be some reason why the woman I'd married, the mother of my child, had committed such an act towards Sophia. Lumina wasn't cruel. She was gentle, caring, protective of those she loved.  The woman I'd seen in that kitchen couldn't be the mother of our kid who sang lullabies to Ol