Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

Chapter 286: Provoking Her

"Where were you?" Killian demanded the second they walked through the main lodge. I

Inez paused and turned to look at Tracy, who had promised her that Killian would still be asleep. However, from the looks of it, the man was very much awake.

"He is stronger than I thought," Tracy muttered under her breath. "I expected that the spell would knock him out nicely for a good ten hours. Never expected that he would wake up so quickly."

Inez rolled her eyes. She should have known better, especially when she sensed his worry through the pack link. Raising her hands in a calming manner, she said to Killian, "I am fine. We just went on a little drive and nothing else."

"Finn told me that you were missing for six hours." Killian countered.

Inez turned silent. She glanced at the beta, who raised his hands in surrender and said to her, "Don’t look at me like that. I didn’t want to betray you but there is no going against him when he goes all alpha mode."

Inez simply rolled her eyes. She didn’t believe a word that Finn said to her because she knew that the man wouldn’t dare to betray her in a heartbeat if he had to choose between her and Killian.

hand and placed it on Killian’s bicep. "Calm

needed to calm the fuck down but he couldn’t. He kept remembering the incapacitating fear he had felt when he found out that Inez had followed this witch foolishly and left the territory with her. He couldn’t even chase after her because Tracy had

who cast a spell this strong

feel right—it’s fleeting and dynamic. It changes every second. One moment she was smelling like enchiladas and now she smells ancient, like she had stepped out from a hundred-year-old temple.

she was letting on. However, that was not important. What was important was how trusting Inez was. After the betrayal that she received at the hands

that could happen to her when she was gone...the fear he had felt... he had never felt that kind of fear before. It was the fear of losing

fucking

the point where he needed her to fucking breathe. Something he did just fine without her all these years long. Had never thought that she would dig her way

get past his defences. It was only a matter of time. But he

He had been wrong.

in them. And now he felt ...really, really threatened. It was stupid. He knew that it was stupid. But no one—not a single soul had ever made themselves as essential as she had done. Not one. He wasn’t sure he liked it. Every self-protective instinct was yelling

really start distancing himself from her. If she was going to do what she wanted to do without letting him know or without asking him for his opinion, then Inez might be quite fine without him, right? Even if he pulled

"You are quiet."