Alpha Hayley's Destined Mate by Andrea Townsend

Chapter 685 Suspected of Murder

Hayley's POV:

I only relaxed when I saw Samson leading the group.

"Alpha King," Frederick greeted him with a respectful bow. "What brings you here?"- "I wanted to check on things," Samson replied, then finally turned his attention to me. His expression softened at once. Stepping closer, he asked gently, "Why are you here?"

I narrowed my eyes, tilted my chin toward Frederick, and smirked. "Your man thinks I'm the murderer." Samson's face darkened immediately. He turned to Frederick, his tone laced with reproach. "Is that true?"

quickly defended himself. "The evidence points to Ms. Carson

Frederick looked momentarily startled b as the prime suspect."

"That's impossible," Samson stated firmly. "My people will handle this. You'll cooperate with them."

"Alpha, that's improper." Frederick hesitated.

"There's nothing improper about it. If anything goes wrong, I'll take full responsibility," Samson declared with authority.

His commanding presence made the surrounding Beta enforcers instinctively lower their heads.

to me, he spoke

Frederick objected, his frustration evident. "We have both witnesses and physical evidence. The law allows us

understand plain speech?" Samson's voice turned cold, his wolf instincts flaring. “I said Hayley isn't

didn't mean that," Frederick quickly

and impartial in handling pack matters as the Alpha King. He never

me without hesitation because he trusted his

understanding

had worked closely with Samson for years, should

he was clearly

didn't mean that, but you still refuse to follow my orders, don't you?" Samson's icy tone snapped me back to

Frederick could respond, he glanced up at the police officer observing

1/2

Арг

Suspected

it was a suicide case and there was

+8 Pearls

here! How could he leave first?

message," the

look. "Did you hear that? Max is the most skilled forensic expert we have. He's