Chapter 73 The Truth on Trial

Aubrey’s POV

1 kg still brud eilent, trigning deep as the two Omega maids confirmer charting A few minutes later their foorstops Ended down the hallway.

The momem they were gone, 1 bolted upright and slipped out while no one was watching. I left Seabrart Island as quickly as possible.

Back at my apartment, I stared down at the wolf–fang ring on my finger, my head pounding.

“Ella, is he insane?” i hissed through clenched teeth, twisting the ring back and forth. “When I was chasing after him, he looked down on me like I was dirt. Now that I want nothing to do with him, he suddenly starts clinging to me?”

From deep in my mind, Ella let out a lazy yawn. “He’s our fated mate. It’s instinct.”

Instinct? That was it?

A sharp, needle–like pang jabbed through my chest. So that sudden change of heart–his warmth, the gentleness, the kisses–none of it had anything to do with me as a person. It was just… the damn nature of werewolves?

I didn’t know why that answer unsettled me so much.

My phone buzzed again. My father’s name flashed across the screen, over and over. Reluctantly. I picked up. The second the call connected, his furious bellow roared through the speaker, nearly bursting my eardrum.

“Aubrey! Get to the security bureau immediately! Jimmy’s been caught!”

I blinked, momentarily surprised. “I’ll

hung up without another


the werewolf security headquarters, half

dress, face pale and pitiful–completely different from the shameless, panting mess she’d

spat,

story to know what had happened–Bailey must have shed a few crocodile tears, and that was all it took. That was

eyes, I was always the one at fault. It would take him two minutes of real thought to realize how many things didn’t add up–but he

Still…

stood there

powerful enough to give her confidence. But who? The Lynn

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The Truth

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out with her own teeth. I was keeping Aurelia and Bailey alive for one reason

followed them into

would be brought in soon to testify from the

before Jimmy arrived, a stranger

down the supplier,” he said calmly. “He’s confessed. He claims a woman named Aubrey purchased the aphrodisiac from him.” He

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