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

Just let me

in his voice that made me stop. Alexander never sounded panicked. Ever. Especially not with me. But he

as panicked as Alexander. “He’s our mate.

I could do was hear what he had to say.

hesitated for a long moment. So long, in fact, that I wondered if he was going to say anything at all or if he was just stalling for time. I considered leaving again, but then he finally blurted out, “Your

I blinked. “What?”

parents‘ car accident all those years ago. I found out that it wasn’t an accident. Your father

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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 that?


was desperate to have… The way

wasn’t that far–fetched

was a man

for your family for years. Your father was the one who paid him to cut the brake lines

face meant nothing to me, but something

the dim light. A muscle jumped in his jaw, indicating that he was

looking at me…

me to see what my reaction

in on

“Do you think…”

tell me, Ella,” Alexander said quietly, eyes flashing, “if

felt like a gunshot in

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