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."

an answer, Selene turned and glared at the man, who shrugged and then said to her, "Well, let’s say...it comprised a teapot, a long pole and a rather agonised

to say, 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

go," said Laxus. Having received an answer from Selene, he turned to look at Killian

forehead before saying to her, "Call me if there is anything that you need

after

asked to stay behind.

her a cup of coffee, she said to her, "You do not like his overprotectiveness." Inez had to admit

somehow she did. "I don’t like how he always wants to protect me from danger and yet blames himself for

rolling back in her sockets. "Even though Lyra got what was 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

told me that she was a

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

Inez remarked with a

come to believe that maybe he might have never given his all to save Lyra. Even if he didn’t like her, as the better half of her soul, he should have tried better to hold her steady. I say that the mating bond had little

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