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.”


walk around him, but he

let me

stop. Alexander never sounded panicked. Ever.

wolf sighed, sounding just as panicked as Alexander. “He’s our

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

at all or

I blinked. “What?”

those years ago. I found out

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cut the brake

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I laughed incredulously. My father was a lot of things, but a murderer definitely wasn’t one of them. Sure, he was cold and selfish and had never treated me like his real daughter, but to have another Alpha and Luna killed? What would he even stand to gain from


The money my father was desperate to

supposed that it wasn’t that

showed me a photograph. In it was a man I

confessed,” Alexander explained. “He’s been working for your family for years. Your father was the one who

at the photo. The face meant nothing to me, but something about Alexander’s certainty made my stomach

face was hard now, eyes glimmering like emeralds in the dim light. A muscle

looking at me…

was testing me to see what

was in

“Do you think…”

Alexander said quietly, eyes flashing, “if you’re a

words felt like a gunshot in the

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