Chapter 19: Shameful Confession

Raphael’s POV:

“Just tell me if you have seen her or not!” Arnold’s voice was combined with a desperate uneasiness which piqued my curiosity as I wondered why he was looking for her in the first place. He didn’t seem to have a proper night of sleep either with his scruffy bed hairs all standing up.

Peering at his antsy expression, I answered, “No, I haven’t seen her since yesterday.”

“Damn it!” This time, he gritted his sharp jaws and stomped his feet on the ground, while throwing a fit. “I had told that girl to stay inside my room and not go anywhere else! But she’s just so darn stubborn to have listened to me for just fuckin’ one time! Darn it!”

With that loud growl, when Arnold turned around speedily as if he was about to rush outside, I grabbed his arm from behind, while processing the words he just said now. My face quickly turned pale from the apprehension building inside me as I grunted, “One second, what did you say? Did you take Kara from the garden hut to your room last night…Why?”

“I don’t have the time to give you all the reasons, I better go and look for her first—”

“JUST FUCKIN’ TELL ME WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!?”

I didn’t think I would lash out at my elder brother so loudly by cutting off his words, that he would freeze in shock. It was the very first time in our lives that I acted so angrily towards Arnold, and the only reason was Kara…

Furrowing his brows, he glowered at me with an unsettled face before answering, “After knowing that she was in the same class as yours, I had thought of using her help to get through the Spanish lessons last night. That’s why I asked her to come and help me in my room, and she accepted my deal. In return, I had promised to provide her some food and a warm shelter because she was about to freeze to death outside.”

I stared at him for a while with disbelief in my eyes, as my jaws clenched hard. I didn’t let go of his arm either, rather I growled, “If you only had this intention, then it shouldn’t have bothered you to this extent after she disappeared from your room last night! Tell me, what else did you do to her, Arnold?”

“Darn it!” Watching me having no intention of letting him get away from my grasp, he ruffled his hair with a frustrated sigh, before responding, “I…am not saying that my intentions were very pure. After we were done with the class, I thought of…p-playing a little bit with her, that’s all. But she took off before I could do—”

“What do you mean by playing with her, Arnold? Speak coherently!!” This time, interrupting in between his words, I asked him in a low, scary grumble that winced Arnold a bit when he met my eyes.

He gulped, with his tensed expression, and confessed, “I…tried to test a drug on her that I had recently brought from the black market. I had heard of other noble kids playing with that drug, so I wanted to test how effective it was for a black slave like her… Once a girl takes the drug, she starts ovulating…and loses all rational senses to restrain herself. Since she was a wolf-less one, I thought…there would be no pregnancy worries, and…I could make her submit to me—”

“HOW COULD YOU!?”

I could not control my wrath anymore, so I leaped close and grabbed Arnold fiercely by his collar and shrieked at the top of my lungs, rolling my fierce glare on him. My brown orbs had transformed into illuminant blue, expressing the wrath of beta as if my wolf had started to take over me!

“How could you use such a dangerous drug on her!? She was already an anemic, frail…wolfless girl, she was completely defenseless! To cover for your mistake, Father had already thrown her outside in the garden hut, yet still, how could you commit such a disgusting thing to her, Arnold!? How could you lust after her so brazenly!?”

“Raphael–”

“Weren’t you already warned by Dad never to commit something like this!? Aren’t you ashamed to call yourself the son of the Grand Duke? How could you still look into my eyes after this!?”

I couldn’t control my howl any more, as I was deeply shaken from inside by his shameful confession!