After a few seconds, that felt like that stretched to eternity, Griffon slowly loosened his grip on the trigger.
The people Taya cared about the most in this world were Silas and Harper.
He couldn’t involve the people she loved just for the sake of his revenge. It wasn’t fair to them to involve them in this hell.
After fighting his urges and working to get his wolf’s bloodlust under control, he slowly lowered the hand holding the gun.
His mother seemed to have expected that he would put down his gun for the sake of the person he cared about, and her smile was even more smug.
“That’s why you can’t ever defeat me. You might be an Alpha, but you have a weakness that I don’t have.”
Griffon clenched his jaw and let out a low growl.
It wasn’t that he had a weakness she didn’t have…it was that by pack law, he couldn’t do anything to her. She was his mother, therefore untouchable. If he were to ever do anything to her in retaliation, and it got back to the elders, he could be stripped of his title.
And though Preston was like a brother to him, he was just his cousin. Which meant that according to pack law, if Griffon was stripped of his title, it would fall back to his mother as next of kin.
Which would be disastrous for the Knight pack.
At his low growl, Madam Knight rubbed her thumb along the belt she held.
“Your threats are empty. You cannot kill me. The elders will come for you. And if you dare cross me, I will destroy everyone you remotely hold dear. Of course, they won’t be tortured to death like Cici, but I have other means at my disposal. Or…
The woman raised her chin and smiled at Stella, who was lying motionless on the ground. “I can do the same thing to them as I do to her.”
Griffon narrowed his eyes. He was tired of his mother’s sick games. “Since you hate me so much, what holds you back from just killing me and taking over?”
The woman played with her belt and smiled playfully. “I haven’t had enough fun with you yet.”
That’s all anyone was to her. Playthings for her to torture. And after his father and brother pa*used away, she’d tortured him even more.
The belt in her hand had whipped him countless times when he was a pup.
When he was a young pup, he thought that if he withstood her abuse, he would prove to her that he was strong and worthy. Instead, her not being able to break him only made her try harder.
Not all mothers who had given birth to children could be called mothers.
He’d always thought that when he became Alpha, it would change. But it never did, and he’d learned there wasn’t anything he could do to stop it other than to avoid her and make sure he didn’t allow anyone else he cared about to get caught in the crosshairs.
People from the Knight pack treated him extremely well, but people from the Leiner pack-which had joined with the Knight pack when his mother mated his father-wanted to torture him to death. They wanted a Leiner to take on the role of Alpha.
But the result was the opposite of what they wanted.
And the more he fought, the longer he lived, the harder they tried to bring him down to gain control of the pack.
And his mother couldn’t just have him killed because the elders would look into the death of an Alpha. There was no telling what would happen to Madam Knight’s position and the position of the pack and all their wealth and power then.
He smiled bitterly. He had once hoped for maternal love.
Now… Griffon looked at the woman in the wheelchair, hate for her seeping through his pores.
He was truly in a lose-lose situation with her, but it ended today.
“From today onwards, I will repay all the pain you have inflicted on me over the years,” he snarled in a low, threatening voice.
Griffon had spent his whole life trying to gain her favor, trying to keep those he loved safe. He’d spent his entire life simultaneously chasing down her approval while also hating her but not wanting to upset the elders.
He had been the bigger person and treated her as his mother, and had never been ruthless to her. Even when he fought with her, he had considered their relationship.
But she had never treated him as a human, so why should he care anymore?
He couldn’t kill her, but he could play her game against her.
The woman carelessly raised an eyebrow upon hearing this. “Let’s wait and see.”
Her eyes were full of disdain, but she didn’t say anything more.
She said to the man behind her, “Let’s go.”
Griffon’s uncle nodded and pushed her out of the door, followed by her group of bodyguards.
Although Georgia Leiner Knight could not let her son die, she would definitely hurt him badly.