Chapter 163
Chapter 163
Darius pov
I couldn’t resist her.
Again.
Just like last time, I was drawn to her in ways I couldn’t control. Her scent, her body, her face, everything pulled me in, everything.
In that room, I had found myself teetering on the edge of control, but somehow, I held it in.
I wasn’t exactly angry that she had sneaked out last night, I knew she would but a part of
me wanted to fight against it.
The bond that drew me to her, the intense urge that shot through my entire body,
beckoning me to pull her close, to claim her, it only grew worse with Silas wanting to take her again, just like that night. But I pushed it all back.
I had been doing well, holding back the urge… until she dropped to her knees and looked
up at me with those eyes.
In that moment, I completely lost it. I lost the control I had, and before I knew it, I was already closing the distance between us and kissing her.
Before I realized it, I had spent the night with the she–wolf again. And now, as I stared at nothing in particular, my gaze vacant, my fingers drummed absently against the desk, tightening around the file in my hand without thought.
I couldn’t help but think how easily I seemed to lose control with her.
I could barely keep myself together, which was infuriating, but there was nothing I could do. That was why I had agreed to her request to help find her ex and her best friend, much to my displeasure and why I had let her servant go without punishment.
“Which is why you told the guards not to watch the dungeon… because you knew she’d sneak out last night, and you were worried she’d get hurt if they caught her, isn’t that
right?”
Silas, the idiot, said in my head. I could hear the clear amusement in his tone, and a scoff
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escaped me, my grip tightening around the file as my eyes grew colder, the air itself turning heavier at his words.
“Because I was worried she’d get hurt?” I echoed with a low chuckle, placing the file on the desk, the corner of my lips curving into an amused smirk.
Sure, I had known she was going to sneak out.
The girl was trouble. Everything about her screamed it. And knowing this, I had given Cassian a casual order.
“Send the guards home tonight. Leave only two or three to guard the dungeon.”
Cassian had clearly been shocked by my words, but he obeyed all the same.
The reason wasn’t because I was worried she’d get hurt, I couldn’t care less about her
safety. She could lose an arm, a leg, and I wouldn’t even blink. What mattered, the only
thing that mattered, was her life.
That was what I cared about. That was what I needed.
She had to live so I could discover how a white wolf like her could break the curse. And
knowing how deadly my guards were, I wasn’t willing to risk them killing her. That was why I gave the order.
Besides, she was a white wolf. She could handle two or three guards.
“The only thing I cared about was whether she lived or died. Her safety means nothing to me,” I said, my voice cold as I leaned back in the seat, running a hand through my hair and pushing the strands away from my face.
I could hear Silas sneer at me in disdain before cutting off the connection with a scoff, and the very next second, Cassian’s voice reached me.
“My king… can you hear me? Did I say something wrong?”
My gaze flickered to him, cold and unfeeling, and I watched him shiver slightly beneath it as he stood before me with Drake, both of them holding files in their hands, their confused gazes fixed on me.
I frowned faintly at him before shifting my attention back to the desk. Picking up the file, I
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refocused on what I had been examining as I spoke.
“So… you still haven’t been able to find the whereabouts of this man?” I asked, narrowing my gaze on the photo inside, a man with a neutral expression, vacant eyes staring straight ahead.
Kieran.
The she–wolf’s ex. The one she was searching for. I had agreed to look for him and for the girl he had apparently cheated with, his so–called mate.
Alive or dead, it didn’t matter. She had said as much herself, she only wanted to see their bodies.
I tilted my head slightly and flipped to the next page, revealing the girl’s picture. Her name was Ari, and she was smiling brightly in the photo.
And as I stared at her, just for the briefest moment before I could stop myself, one thought crossed my mind, he was blind.
The girl was not as pretty as her-
The world seemed to stop. My eyes widened slightly in disbelief, my thoughts flustering surprise.
What did I just-
“Yes, my king,” Cassian’s voice cut in. “We haven’t managed to track Kieran and his mate.
Alpha Ethan provided us with the report from the day of their disappearance, and something about it stood out. Apart from the scents the police recovered at the scene,
Kieran, Ari, and Nyssa, who arrived there in the morning, there was a fourth, unidentified
scent the police couldn’t trace.”
He informed me, and I lifted a brow before tossing the file in my hand onto the desk and leaning back in my seat, my eyes fixed on Cassian.
“Another person? There were more than three scents at the scene?” I asked, mildly
intrigued.
I hadn’t paid much attention to the matter before, nor did I care. But apparently, Nyssa had
gone to her ex’s house and found blood everywhere with the two missing.
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Cassian had told me it was believed the man killed his mate and went into hiding with her body. But if there was a fourth scent, then there was clearly more to the story.
“Yes, my king, but it was faint. The police weren’t able to delve deeper into it,” he explained. “But according to them, someone else was in that room that night, and…” He paused, his eyes darkening before he continued, “The police also found a small dose of Ashvein in Kieran’s room.”
My gaze narrowed the moment he said that, a slight frown tugging at my lips.
According to that servant, it was Kieran who had given her the Ashvein to pass to the rogue.
It truly seemed like there was more to this than I had thought.
