Chapter 258: You Owe Me Your Life (2)

Inez smiled. "Yes."

"I knew you would be," said Selene as she glanced at Laxus, who sighed in response. He turned to look at Inez before saying to her, "I am glad that you are feeling alright, Inez. We were really worried after what happened last night."

"Well, what can I say? I am hard to kill."

Laxus chuckled appreciatively, but he turned silent when he caught the glare that Killian was sending his way and cleared his throat. He turned to look at Selene and said to her, "Do you need me to stay with you?"

"No, I will be fine. I don’t believe that the witches will make a move so soon," remarked Selene as she turned her attention to Inez. "And I believe that we need some girl time. Alone without you men, brooding at the back of our necks."

She paused and turned to look at Killian, who was glowering at them. "And instead of glaring at me, you should be working hard to track down that bastard who tried to kidnap Inez. That would be much more useful than this."

"I never knew that you were this assertive," said Inez, sounding simply awed at Selene’s manner of speaking.

Selene huffed while Killian rolled his eyes. He said to her, "This is just a trailer of what she can do. Just because she has been all docile all these years, people have started to treat her as a kitten. They should have seen what she did to the fox who called her fugly when she was sixteen."

the man, who shrugged and then said to her, "Well, let’s say...it comprised a teapot, a long pole and a rather

but she did try to pretend that she understood what the man said to her. How in the hell did a teapot and a pole even become a means of torture? Maybe she

answer from Selene, he turned to look at Killian and said

kissed her on the forehead before saying to her,

left after dropping

look at Selene and asked, trying to stop herself from feeling annoyed with how she was once again asked to stay behind. This incident was closely linked to her, and yet she couldn’t do anything about it

poured her a cup of coffee, she said to her, "You

always wants to protect me from danger and yet blames himself for something

coming for her, he still loves to bear some responsibility for her death. You will think that it is stupid. And it is. She was beyond help. Even if he had tried to save her—he could never have done that. Because that woman

told me that she was a

she started to get latched to just about anyone. Most probably, one of the men she slept with was a wizard. Anyway, while I do admit that there are witches who are kind—even if only one per cent. But Lyra didn’t belong to that one per cent. And yet Killian still feels that he was the reason why she turned into what she turned because he

remarked with a

given his all to save Lyra. Even if he

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