Chapter 203

Ella

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The look on Alexander’s face when he opened that envelope told me everything I needed to know.

He didn’t deny it. He didn’t look confused or shocked or angry that someone was trying to frame him. He just stared at the papers with an expression that was nothing short of guilty.

I felt like such an idiot. All those moments I’d treasured recently, all those little instances of tenderness that had led my foolish heart to believe that he was actually starting to fall for me, had been nothing but lies.

It was all just a beautiful performance designed to keep me close while he gathered information on my family.

And I’d fallen for it completely.

“I need to go.”

“Wait.” Alexander suddenly moved to block my path. “You need to let me explain.”

“Explain what? That you’ve been spying on me since the day we got married? That everything between

us has been fake?”

“It’s not fake.”

“Bullshit.”


around him, but he grabbed

let

me stop. Alexander never sounded panicked. Ever. Especially not with me. But

my wolf sighed, sounding just as panicked as Alexander. “He’s our mate. Hear him

but I knew she was right. The least I could do was hear what he had to say. “Fine,”

long, in fact, that I wondered if he was going to say anything at all or if he was just

I blinked. “What?”

found out that it wasn’t an accident. Your father

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cut the brake

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Sure, he was cold and selfish and had never treated me like his real daughter, but to have another Alpha and Luna killed?


it… The money my father was desperate to have… The way he ignored my death sentence just so he

that far–fetched for

was a man I didn’t recognize, but the caption underneath read “Thomas Black–Groundskeeper,

confessed,” Alexander explained. “He’s been working for your family for years. Your father was the one who paid him to cut the brake lines on my

me, but something about Alexander’s certainty made

like emeralds in the dim

looking at me…

was testing me to see

I was in on it somehow,

“Do you think…”

tell me, Ella,” Alexander said quietly, eyes

like a gunshot in

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