Chapter 137: Chapter 137: Trapped Between Hunters

Selene’s POV~

I could not move.

The file lay at my feet like a crime I had been caught with. The sound of the papers falling still rang in my ears.

Their eyes did not leave me.

Aeron stepped forward first. He did not speak. He only pointed at the chair in the center of the hall. His gaze was enough. It told me what to do.

My throat was dry. My legs shook. Still, I obeyed. I would not want to raise their suspicion more toward me.

Slowly, I walked to the chair and sat down. My heart beat so hard that I thought it would break through my chest.

The three of them moved around me. Like hunters circling prey.

Kael stood at my left. Luca at my right. Aeron straight in front. Their bodies closed me in, leaving no escape.

The air grew heavy. I could feel it pressing down on me. I could feel them pressing down on me.

I did not understand their eyes. They were not cold alone, neither angry alone. There was something else. Something I could not name. Something that made my stomach twist with dread.

It would have been better if they had been in rage and barked orders to their beta or gamma to drag me out of here, but no—they had decided to play with my emotions.

head. Did they know? Did they see me? Did

they could not know. If they knew the truth, I would not be sitting in front


were their eyes so sharp? Why were they watching me like this? Why did it feel as if

My whole body trembled. Yet in the middle of all this fear, another feeling rose inside

was wrong. It was wild. My heart was not only afraid. It

looking at me like that. I wanted to demand what they

knew something. Luca’s stare burned the side of my face until I had to

it. I feared

Three hunters. One prey.

And I was caught.

Maybe he thought to end my misery and break this

just inches from mine. My breath caught in my chest. I wanted to move and

burned into me. My forehead grew damp with sweat. My lips parted, but no

you?" he

deep and low. It rumbled through


washed over me for a moment. Maybe they really did not know who I was. Maybe they only caught me for

I had already prepared in my mind. "Alpha... I am just a human girl. I was only trying to clean the

a sharp laugh, low in his throat. "A human girl, cleaning, inside our

moved. None of them looked away. Instead, I saw it—the spark in their eyes. The curiosity. The interest. It grew sharper, hotter, as if my lie had

lips trembled. My chest burned. I wanted to explain more. I wanted to give them a reason, any reason, for why I was near their file. My mind spun with excuses, one after another, but none seemed strong enough to save

and sharp. "Do not waste our

me. My tongue

just by watching my face. Then, without warning, he pulled back. He leaned away from me and sat down on a

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