Vivianne's mind
"Why are the other alphas still reacting to your heat? I claimed you! I marked you!" Dietrich's voice thundered through her ears, sharp and venomous, like the cracking of a whip.
The sound tore through her chest, vibrating through her bones until it felt like her heart itself was trembling. Vivianne blinked hard, her vision spinning as she heard those words, she had heard them before.
It was the same voice, the same fury that once haunted her first life.
The memory flooded in like a violent tide. She remembered the cold floor beneath her knees, the scent of burnt incense and blood, and the way Dietrich's hand had gripped her arm hard enough to bruise as he shouted those same words.
His insecurity had twisted into cruelty, and his pride as an alpha had shattered the moment he realized he couldn't properly mark her. He had failed to bind her the way the alpha claimed their omega.
