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Because she had believed i

n his word She had trusted hiether, she had believed there wasthem than a job

“He swore before we met that my family wouldn’t suffer,” she told hi ht, that they would not be punished or harmed unless there was no other recourse but to wound thereement”

“You have the secured emails that have been retrieved, Director Wyatt, that back up Ms Kobrin’s statement,” Cassandra interjected

Jonas looked back at her with faint surprise “I didn’t need proof of her statement, Ms Sinclair,” he told her “I merely needed to clarify that she are of the risks in contacting Alpha Delgado before she did so”

“Ms Kobrin” Merinus Lyons, wife and mate to Alpha Lyons, the Feline prides’ leader, spoke up then “Do you feel that you were, at any time, raped?”

The question had a deadly tension beginning to fill the air Anya hadn’t expected that question

“I never stated I was raped,” she answered

“No, you didn’t,” Merinus agreed “You have instead petitioned this tribunal for separation froical and, we suspect, your eer or s As a woman, as part of this tribunal, I’d like to understand why you’ve taken this stance”

“I wasn’t raped” She shook her head “Not by Del-Rey I feel raped by the insanity of these laws I’m forced to abide by, and I feel raped by a horado nor myself had control over I had no choice but to accept hiical connection forced I resent that this tribunal feels that I should subject ado is present And I resent that the choice could be taken out of my hands That, Prima Lyons, is the worst sort of rape”

Merinus stared back at her for long reement “Thank you, Ms Kobrin, for that clarification”

Silence filled thethe tribunal hadn’t expected her answer And she could feel Del-Rey staring at her; fro frown on his face

“Would you say, Ms Kobrin, that perhaps you and Alpha Delgado have been forced into a position that neither of you wanted?” Alpha Lyons asked then

“I would say that,” she stated

The pride alpha stared back at her relentlessly “Yet you’ve seen Alpha Delgado’s state was to take you out of that facility and claim you as his lover You were sixteen when he first met you From that point on, he are there was no chance he would leave you there No chance that he didn’t intend to convince you to stay with him”