Chapter 73: A Touch Of Concern

He tilted his head to one side and remarked. "Why are you so pissed off? Let me guess— you are jealous?"

"No. But I am about to get really annoyed by your assumptions?"

Chuckling, he pulled away from her. "What did my dear Nyx tell you about Lyra?"

"That..." Inez paused, not understanding whether she should speak the truth or not. However, when she noticed the knowing look in his eyes, Inez knew that there was no point in hiding the truth. The lycan could easily see through her thoughts; if she lied, then he would not think twice before peeking into her thoughts.

As annoying as it was, Inez knew that there was nothing that she could do about it.

She decided to tell him the truth anyway; it was not she who would lose anything. "She told me that you were used to ... beating your ex-mate," relayed Inez, and Killian, who heard it, laughed as if he had heard some kind of joke.

Seeing him laugh, Inez couldn’t help but frown. She questioned, "Why are you laughing? Is it not the truth?" Her expression was filled with confusion as she looked at the man who was laughing as if he were amused by what she said.

he said that, the second his emotions closed off, Inez knew that there was more to the story than he was letting on. He said to her, "You should go on with your work.

turned to walk out of

caught his wrist. The lycan paused and looked down at the small hand that was holding his own. He arched his

him, "I didn’t mean anything like that." Taking out the chocolate that she usually carried with her, as Inez liked to eat something sweet whenever she was feeling a bit down, she handed it to

after hearing him confess to hitting his mate. Usually, they looked at him as if he were a monster who had done something despicable without

was why he turned around and left without taking a look at her expression, but he never thought

the piece of chocolate from her, he raised it in the air

hurrying upstairs to

devoid of any emotions. Seeing her like this, Inez was startled. She

because the woman had another attack,

smile. She shook her head and replied, "No. I slept like a baby last night. I was just woolgathering

and asked Inez to come and sit down next to her. She said to her, "Did you run into Kill? I hope that he didn’t give you a hard time. Though he might come out as someone who has little to no substance, the truth is

had substance when it came to her; as for the rest, she couldn’t be clear about it at the moment. Killian was the kind of man who hid himself too deep.

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