Chapter 26 Tell Me Why

Aubrey’s POV

My smile was turning colder.

Alpha Henry was getting angrier by the second. He scoffed, full of disdain. “If they don’t find that recorder, are you gonna say Mariana picked it up? Don’t forget, she’s on tour. She won’t be back for a month!”

“I can’t believe our mate is this dumb! He actually doesn’t believe you!” Ella growled furiously in my mind. “Should I break the suppression? Let him know we’re fated mates? Maybe then he’ll finally fucking believe you!”

I felt her urge boil up and immediately stopped her. “No. Don’t do it. Even if he finds out I’m his mate. I swear, it wouldn’t change a thing. And I don’t want to use that to tie him to me. I’m tired. I don’t want to be with him anymore. Ella, please… don’t let him know I’m his mate. Okay?”

Ella went quiet. After a long moment, she finally answered, “Okay.”

I let out a breath and looked back at Alpha Henry. I gritted my teeth. “Can I just ask you something?”

My eyes stayed locked on his. I didn’t look away for even a second.

“She’s your childhood friend. But so am I. I even met you before she did. I was your fiancée. So why do you trust her so much… but not me?”

“Because she’s simpler than you. Kinder than you. No–there’s nothing about you that even compares to her.”

Alpha Henry sneered and turned to leave.

And right then, I snapped.

shut, and shoved him back against it. But as Shadowmoon Pack’s Alpha, there was no way he’d let himself be cornered


so I grabbed his collar tight with both fists,

“Let go!” he barked.

“No.”

never have dared to speak to Alpha

“Goddamn it!!”

narrowed. “What do you want from me?!” he shouted, slamming a fist into the door right next to

beside my ear, and the rage radiating

were so close, I could feel his

and stared at him. I wasn’t just angry. I was

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my eyes must’ve shaken him–like something

exactly why you treat me and her so differently! Just say


out a

know? Fine, If you’ve forgotten, I’ll

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you go!”

don’t you? When we were fourteen? The three of us snuck off to the countryside villa. I fell into the water. You were right there. But you were so scared of water, all you did was stand there frozen! Even when I was blacking out, the last thing I saw was

I stared at him, wide–eyed,

But he wasn’t done.

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