#Chapter 139 – The News

“Amelia,” Victor growls, still angry by the revelation of her deceit.

She, however, is unphased. Or at least, she acts like it.

“Victor!” she says, taking four happy steps forward, closing the distance between them and placing a kiss on his cheek. Around him, Victor hears the crowd hush, all eyes on them.

“Oh, darling, don’t tell me you’re leaving,” Amelia coos, putting a soft hand on his cheek.

Victor stops himself from flinching away, not wanting to give the onlookers anything to gossip about. He looks down at Amelia for a moment and curses, internally, when he sees the flash of a camera to his right.

He turns to glare at the reporter, who skitters away, before turning his attention back to Amelia. “Yes,” he growls, “I’m leaving.”

“Such a shame,” she murmurs, looking beyond him and waving to a friend at the back of the room. “I was hoping we could catch up over a drink. Next time, then.”

Ignoring her words – all fake, anyway, the kind of niceties you’d say to a casual acquaintance – Victor nods to her. “Good evening, Amelia, have a nice time.” Then, not waiting for an answer, he steps around her and storms from the Prath home.

God damnit, he thinks as he meets his two Betas in the drive and they head for his car. Amelia had played it perfectly, with her casual indifference and untroubled smiles. Onlookers would think that she’d gotten over him, relegated him to her past.

Not that she was actively working to undermine him, destroy him, which she certainly was.

Frustrated, he climbs into the back of the black sedan. Again, Amelia is a step ahead of him.

But he would find a way to turn it. He has Evelyn on his side, now, he knows, and once they go public with her Luna status, everything would change. Amelia would be forgotten and Annabeth would see, again, his personal emphasis on family values.

Everything would be set right.

next morning, while he’s drinking his coffee out of one of Evelyn’s worn yellow mugs,

and then glances up at Evelyn’s

down at him with one eyebrow

Uh-oh.

down and picks up the paper.

section, is a photograph of him and Amelia that takes up three quarters of the page. Next to the

Victor and Amelia

eyes into the living room to ensure that the boys are busy with their lesson before looking at the photo. It’s damning, for sure. He glances up at Evelyn, pressing his lips together, and then

it’s anger – he had just

hand to place it gently on his cheek. They look like nothing less than

he unfolds the paper, reading the beginning of the

mate, Amelia Jones? While Jones has been in hiding for weeks after her disaster of

eyeing the top spot. Is it possible that he’s missing his former Best Gal? Rest assured

Victor murmurs, tossing it

next to him and looking at him

the eye. “She was walking in while I was walking out. She took advantage of the

blinks at him, not allowing any expression on her

the

Victor,” she says. “I was just messing with

Amelia had frequently been so jealous and – well, when it came to Evelyn, perhaps his jealousy had been justified. But he wouldn’t be able to handle it if Evelyn

me so that I wouldn’t have to be surprised by it

written on his face to tell her in the future. She nods,

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