Chapter 21: Playing her like a fool

"Are you angry, Miss Sinclair?"

Dear Moon Goddess, she was. She had never met a man as clumsy and annoying as Killian Sokolov before. Because of him, she had wasted hours designing those designs, which were not going to be used now.

It was a complete waste of her time and efforts.

Even though she was going to resign today, Inez felt annoyed at the sheer audacity of this man who mocked and insulted her even though he was the one who made the mistake. It was as if the universe knew that she was finally going to get the freedom she so badly craved, that it sent this man as one last straw to test her patience.

Not to mention, she would not be able to enjoy the sight of Eve panicking once she realises that she would have to finally face the comeuppance of her lies.

How could she not be furious?

However, the customer was god. So, she could only smile at the man and say, "Of course not, Alpha Sokolov." Even though she knew that the chances were rather low, Inez wanted to try her luck at convincing the man into signing the contract.

Being perfectly polite and civil was her only option to get what she wanted and that was not the only reason she was being overly polite with him.

Lycans could hardly be considered the stellar member of the shifter community.

lied, stole, gambled and fought with an intensity and motto that said, Win or die. They

that you don’t piss off a lycan unless you have a masochistic tendency of being beaten until you are only a

who was known for being the sadistic tyrant and executioner, was the kind

hadn’t touched the food that was served and was now assessing her with that intense gaze of his. Inez wondered if the man would deem her as

could anyone

way too intense as she looked at the tempting sugary and chocolate delight in front of her that Killian pushed the small bite-size cake in front

"Go ahead."

want it?"

into a smirk as if he was relishing an inside joke. He shook his

curiosity poked at her inside, she was not the kind of person to act on it. She simply picked up the cake and took a small bite from it. Her eyes lit

seen that look in the eyes of many females but it was usually directed at him rather than desserts. He originally wanted to decline the contract as he

called a genius; Killian didn’t see an ounce of wit behind those dumb baby blue eyes. Unless the schemes on how to seduce alphas were counted. Having been speared by her cheesy and flirtatious talks, he often wondered what kind of trauma Dominic went through as a child that he was willing to stay

requested that he meet with Eve’s assistant and have one last talk with

someone who worked under that woman couldn’t be any different than her. However, he and Dominic had an alliance treaty signed and Killian wasn’t going to ruin

had given a bunch of wrong information to this ’assistant’ when she had

assistant was going to meet with him, he had expected a familiar version of a B–doll. Blonde, faker than the smiles that the elders in the council gave him, someone with all beauty

to him. She had more substance

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