Fell for the Alpha-less Queen

Chapter 376 Chains and Silence Beneath the Surface

Tessa glanced at Nathaniel. Why was he talking so much?

Seeing that Tessa didn't want to answer, Ysabel jumped in. "Nathaniel, you talk way too much. Seriously- shut up and cat. I'm starving over here."

Nathaniel opened his mouth to speak, but when he saw Tessa's expression, he backed off.

Forget it. If the alpha wasn't asking questions, why should he stick his nose in?

Landon politely pulled out a chair for Tessa.

She sat down, and Landon took the seat beside her.

As for Nathaniel's question, Landon acted like he hadn't even heard it. Throughout the meal, he kept serving Tessa food and pouring her soup.

From the moment he picked her up today, she'd been acting off.

Of course, Landon knew she was hiding something from him. But if she didn't want to talk, he wasn't going to pry. But he wasn't the kind of man to force answers out of her.

herself around him. If she wanted to talk, he'd listen. If she

like that, she finally felt

chained to a bronze chair, the iron links soaked in wolfsbane. A strip of rune-stitched

alpha of the Frost Pack- brought down by the

Tessa's resolve. When she poured that glass of wine earlier, he

started creeping through his limbs, he knew— She'd laced the wine with Moonveil Dust-an herb that

realized he'd let his guard down. How could he have forgotten? The girl he once locked in a lab and injected with wolf- spirit mutagens was

his face. "Try coming near me or anyone I care about again,

was his! The bond mark they shared on the back of his neck was still burning. How could she do this to him... for another

the truth. He wanted to summon the Frost Pack's wolf spirit, rip the chains apart, knock Tessa out, and drag her

a curse. He couldn't move

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and Silence Beneath the

blurred above him, his vision swallowed

in the room next door, the clink

it aloud, but come on-anyone could tell

what Landon's thinking." Hudson was as

ever.