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Chapter 13 Confrontation

Chapter 13: Confrontation and Revelation

Chapter 13: Confrontation and Revelation

(Elena’s POV)

A tall, well–built Alpha leaned against his black sedan, smoking a cigarette. The blue white smoke blurred his face, but his deep golden eyes swept over the men’s coat draped over my body, inscrutable.

Nathan instinctively glanced at me, then turned to Marcus. “Alpha Marcus, are you waiting for someone?”

The thought that Marcus might be waiting for me seemed absurd. Why would he care about my whereabouts after orchestrating tonight’s humiliation?

Marcus raised his head, exhaled smoke, and crushed the cigarette under his foot. His gaze turned cold as he looked at Nathan.

“Young Master Sterling, do you enjoy meddling in other people’s business so much?”

The four words “meddling in other people’s business” hit my heart like a hammer. My lips went pale as the realization struck me like lightning.

Tonight’s scheme orchestrated by Sophia might truly have been Marcus’s idea. The thought made run cold, my hands and feet freezing.

blood

Nathan noticed my distress and narrowed his eyes, turning to Marcus. “How is saving a damsel in distress considered meddling?”

Marcus frowned, and just as Nathan was about to say more, I weakly pulled at his sleeve. “Big Brother Nathan, please take me home.”

I couldn’t bear to hear any more. The betrayal cut too deep.

Sensing my trembling, Nathan agreed without further argument with Marcus.

As we were about to leave, Marcus called out coldly. “Elena.”

I stiffened. He never called my name in public, always avoiding acknowledgment of our mate bond.

Confused by his sudden change, I hesitated. What game was he playing now?

calling you?”

slightly from my clenched

Marcus, what

“Come here,” he commanded.

added threateningly. “Don’t make me say

apologized to Nathan, who understood my predicament. He whispered

I

heavily toward Marcus, each step feeling like I

“Are you

Chute 13 Gorditation

at the corner

eyes reddening “What happened? Shouldn’t Alpha Marcus know better than

displeasure flashed. He seemed especially irritated by the other man’s

wore

revealing the disheveled state beneath. Marcus

“Who did this?”

the crumpled document from

trick me into attending that dinner, to humiliate

swept over the

exploded. “Marcus, if you truly despise me so much, we can sever our mate bond anytime. Why do you need

remained silent, just staring at me. The silence was more damning

I might suffocate if I

leave, I’ll withdraw the lawyer defending your brother,”

steps froze, my fists clenching tighter. David’s fate

sneered and blocked my

for help, that’s impossible. The Sterling family can’t interfere with my

emotions completely collapsed, my voice becoming hoarse and choked. “Marcus,

want!”

Nathan’s coat into a trash bin. He removed his own suit jacket

react, his coat covered me from above. Despite my

Car

(Marcus’s POV)

the driver, turned and nodded

looked dazed, quickly turning to stare blankly out the window. I glanced

drive.

quickly got

to get out, instructing

“Investigate what happened tonight”

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