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.

him. If she wanted to talk, he'd listen. If she didn't, he

that, she finally felt

links soaked in wolfsbane. A strip of rune-stitched cloth had been stuffed in his mouth,

The proud alpha of the Frost Pack- brought down by

When she poured that glass of wine earlier, he thought she was backing

he knew— She'd laced

wrists, he 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 no longer a puppet. Every smile,

face. "Try coming near me or anyone I care about again, and next time it won't

was his! The bond mark they shared on the back of his neck was still burning. How

Frost Pack's wolf spirit, rip the chains apart, knock Tessa

curse. He couldn't move

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above him, his vision swallowed

and humiliated, surrounded by untouched dishes. Meanwhile, in the room next door, the clink of

say it aloud, but come on-anyone could tell something was up with Tessa. And none of them

what Landon's thinking." Hudson

ever.