Chapter 200

The next part of the video was even harder to watch.

Alex, small hands rifling through the cabinet, finding the bottle of sleeping pills. His little fingers hesitated over two pills before he took out a few more, as if unsure if two would be enough.

Then, with a deep breath, he dropped them all into the glass of water.

Arnold had watched it in silence. He had watched it again.

Now, standing in front of Nora, he didn’t know what to say.

She turned her gaze away, her voice devoid of emotion. “This time, I won’t help him hide it.”

There was no rage in her tone, no dramatic outburst. That’s what made it worse. Nora had already given up.

Nora reached for a folder sitting on the bedside table and held it out to him. Her movements were calm, almost too steady. “I’ve already spoken to my grandmother. She won’t stop us from getting a divorce.”

Arnold’s fingers tightened around the divorce papers, his grip turning his knuckles white.

An unfamiliar resistance welled up inside him, a feeling he hadn’t expected. His entire body felt tense, like a coil wound too tightly.

Why?

Hadn’t this been his decision all along? Hadn’t he been the one to suggest divorce in the first place?

Yet now, with the documents in his hands, the finality of it pressed against him like an invisible weight.

“What are you hesitating about?” Nora’s voice was calm, almost indifferent, but there was an underlying sharpness to it, like the edge of a blade.

his voice to stay level. “You’re

her tone light but firm, “Alpha Arnold, I’ve wanted to

flicker of something dark flared

anger surged through him, hot and unrestrained. He clenched

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of manipulation. She had drugged him, seduced

been stripped from him, and

to his astonishment, Nora laughed.

laugh. It was cold, bitter, the kind that scraped against the walls of

If I wanted to seduce you into bed, do you really think I needed to drug you?”

senses… familiar, intoxicating, dangerous. Leaning

barely a touch, but it sent a jolt through him,

inhaled sharply, his muscles tightening. Lust flared

leaving the air between them charged. Her expression was unreadable, but there

whispered. “It’s like this.”

arms. “I never put anything in that wine. And you’re the

out if you really wanted to. But you didn’t. Do

Arnold remained silent.

tinged with something almost like pity. “You resisted our bond from the start. You never wanted to be told who to love… not by fate, not by anyone. You were

destiny.”

you were forced. That the wine was drugged. That I trapped you.”

now, controlled. But his pulse was

put up with your indifference. I kept hoping, believing that maybe, one day, I could

gestured toward the papers between

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