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

the truth, I would not


eyes so sharp? Why were they watching me like this? Why did it feel as if they were looking past my skin,

My nails dug into the wood. My whole body trembled.

afraid. It was... beating like hell, and I was sure they could

at them to stop looking at me like that. I wanted to demand what they wanted. But my

steady on me. Kael’s lips curved as if he almost knew something.

it.

Three hunters. One prey.

And I was caught.

thought

breath caught in my chest. I wanted

stormy grey eyes locked onto mine. They burned into me. My

are you?"

rumbled through me like a


me for a moment. Maybe they really did not know who I

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

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

to my own ears. I knew the moment they left my lips that they would not believe me. And I was right. None of them 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

I wanted to give them a reason, any reason, for why I was near their file. My mind spun with

his voice low and sharp. "Do

failed me. My tongue

He studied me as if he could read every thought, every secret, just by watching my face. Then, without warning, he pulled back. He leaned away from me and sat down on a chair straight

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