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The room was cloaked in shadows as Gabriel entered, his eyes adjusting to the dim lighting.
“Bella, what’s this supposed to mean? You explicitly said you don’t want to and wouldn’t meet with me any longer, didn’t you?” Gabriel questioned. His question was met with silence.
Bella who was usually against him visiting her or meeting him had suddenly asked to meet with him there. In the dimness, he squinted, attempting to make out Bella’s figure.
“Did you bring the money?” he asked her.
“Oh yes, I brought the money,” a male voice replied, walking out from the shadows.
“What’s the meaning of this?!” Gabriel hissed, attempting to back out of the room, but he was roughly shoved back inside.
“You,” he spat when he saw Ethan, receiving a sudden blow to the guts that sent him sprawling to the ground.
“Boss, is this him?” Ethan’s subordinate asked, stepping over Gabriel.
“Yes, he was definitely here to meet with Bella,” Ethan confirmed.
After searching through Bella’s drawers at her office, they’d found a broken phone tossed into the trash, the number they were able to retrieve was Gabriel.
So they’d lured him out.
“Ethan,” Gabriel scoffed through his bleeding lips. “You lured me out?” he laughed lightly.
“You’ll talk, what’s your business with Bella?” Ethan interrogated.
“What do you think?” Gabriel retorted carelessly, seemingly unfazed.
“She’s been making transactions to your account for several days, months now, under some fake company name.”
It wasn’t ordinary. Gabriel looked away with an irritated expression, clearly harboring disdain for the man in front of him.
“You won’t talk?” Ethan pressed.
“Fine.” Ethan said with a sigh, anticipating that he would soon reveal everything under the mounting pressure.
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“Ethan!” Gabriel called, halting him in his tracks. “How’s your health?” he asked with a knowing smirk.
Ethan, his features transforming into a deep scowl, stopped.
“I know about it, she was buying it from me,” Gabriel admitted. He sought to save his own neck, showing indifference toward Bella.

“I only supplied her the vial! That’s all I did. I don’t know anything,” he denied eagerly.
“And she’s been sending money continually? Millions,” Ethan stated incredulously, suspecting there was more to the story.
“The fact is, you know the truth about Bella, and you are going to tell me.”
“I don’t know anything!” the man yelled defensively. “I only sold her the potions; that’s the truth!” Gabriel insisted.
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“Where is Ethan?” Bella inquired upon waking up, having been knocked out by a sudden blow to the head. Those women had proven to be ruthless.
“Get him here; I need to talk to him,” she ordered the maid attending to her wounds. Although she was being treated, the person tending to her was harsh.
Anna tightened her grip on Bella’s wrist, causing her to hiss in pain.
“How dare you?” Bella snapped at Anna. “I am your Luna!”
“Shut up,” Anna yelled, slapping her face, making Bella go numb and ballistic.
“It felt good all those times you hit us, right?” she sneered.
“I don’t have much time for this. What have you been giving my Alpha?” Anna interrogated angrily.
“I know you’ve been poisoning him. You always acted sneakily; you’ve been poisoning him all this while, haven’t you?” she accused.
“Ethan! Ethan!” Bella yelled, backing off into a corner in fright. “She’s trying to kill me! Help!” she cried in fear. The door opened, and Ethan walked in.
“We need to talk, Ethan,” she pleaded, her entire body in pain, her head throbbing as if split in two. Ethan, seemingly oblivious to what he knew for sure, was torturing her. The thought left her feeling sad and furious. She vowed not to talk, no matter what.
“Are you awake, Bella?” Ethan asked, staring down at her with a face hardened and
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impenetrable. “Ethan, why are you doing this?” Bella started crying. “I hurt all over; I didn’t do anything. I didn’t even know Hazel’s kids are yours. I don’t even…”
“Enough with your lies, Bella!” Ethan interrupted angrily. “Who exactly are you?” he demanded, frustration evident. “Your mate!” she yelled, groaning from the pain of her injuries.
“You aren’t. You’ve fooled me all this while, but you aren’t Bella. If you really were, you wouldn’t have been poisoning my wolf. You’re a fake Bella,” he accused outrightly. “That’s if Bella is actually your name. It’s Annabelle, isn’t it?” he asked, referencing Naomi’s revelation.
“Naomi recognized you, didn’t she?” he questioned, stepping closer. Amidst carefully orchestrated plans, Ethan struggled to comprehend the motive behind everything.
“The bottle I found in your room contained Silvershade Elixir. It’s extremely rare, almost impossible to find. But somehow, you got your hands on it. You have help, some kind, some partners, and this is all some carefully orchestrated plot, isn’t it? You suddenly showing up as my mate and everything till now,” he stated in disbelief.
“I’ve actually been so stu pid,” he muttered. “It’s a lie, Ethan; I’m being framed!” she cried out in pain. “I don’t know how that vial got there, Ethan, I swear,” she yelled. She was- still standing on her lies and being difficult. Ethan sighed; at this rate, he wouldn’t be able to figure anything out from her.
“It seems you weren’t tortured enough,” Ethan muttered with a sigh. Gabriel had asked him how his health was; they were both connected with it in some way.
“Gabriel,” he said the word calmly. Acting impulsively for the first time turned out to be the best decision. He was uncovering more things about her.
“I met with your partner, Gabriel,” he broke to her. “Gabriel is your supplier of the Elixir, right?” he asked her. “What are you talking about, Ethan?” Bella asked, completely scared now. He watched how her denial slowly morphed into alarm and fear.
“I tracked your transactions; those fake companies trailed to him, and I found your old phone,” he drawled out lightly. Bella’s eyes widened as realization dawned on her. Ethan had caught her.
“Ethan! I’ll confess,” she admitted anxiously. “I’m listening,” Ethan replied, signaling a shift in their tense interaction. Bella proceeded to confess her association with Gabriel, claiming he blackmailed her for money. However, Ethan’s skepticism remained.
“Another lie,” Ethan sneered. “Fine. You’ll remain here for a few days. Some days without food or water would clear your head out.” With that, he stood up and left. Bella was scared; she was completely doomed now. Nothing she would say would make Ethan change his mind. The only person she could rely on was Derrick, but he’d turned his
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back on her.
“What you’re doing is illegal! You’re keeping me hostage without any evidence or anything, Ethan! You have no right!” she yelled, and her words were silenced with a hard hit on her face.
“I don’t want to hear a word from you; you talk when I ask you to, and whatever you say would be answers to the questions I asked you. Understood?” he asked, holding her hair in a tight grip, pulling at her scalp. She nodded immediately, tears filling her eyes. Ethan was ruthless.
“Anna, make sure she doesn’t get food, water, or anything for the rest of the week” he ordered.
Bella was smart in cleaning her tracks; if he was going to find out any answers, he would be needing them from her.
Gabriel sat, heaving in his chair, observing Axel as the man walked in. Despite Axel’s outward calmness, one could sense the underlying rage, and it was evident he was close to reaching a boiling point. The air was hot, and Gabriel, covered in bruises, began to break into a cold sweat just from Axel’s presence. The fact that he, Gabriel had also killed his girlfriend intensified the fear, causing Gabriel’s heart to palpate in terror.
Gabriel strategized on how to leave that place with his life intact. They hadn’t discovered his connection to Jasmine’s disappearance and death; Axel would have killed him already if he had found out.
“What do you know about Bella?” Axel calmly asked, taking off his jacket in a slow, calculated manner fitting for a psychopath.
Gabriel remained silent. Men like Axel were the worst kind, with a deceptively gentle and calm face concealing a lot of bottled-up anger and rage.
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