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.

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

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


this? Why did it feel as if they were looking past my skin,

steady myself. My nails dug into the wood. My whole body trembled. Yet in

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

looking at me like that. I wanted to demand what

on me. Kael’s lips curved as if he almost knew something. Luca’s stare burned

hated it. I

Three hunters. One prey.

And I was caught.

toward me. Maybe he thought to end my misery and break

inches from mine. My breath caught in my chest.

locked onto mine. They burned into me. My forehead grew damp with sweat. My lips parted, but no

are you?" he

was deep and low. It rumbled


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

I decided to answer back with the lie I had already prepared in my mind.

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

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 only tied me tighter in their

reason, any reason, for why I was

said, his voice low and

My words failed me. My tongue was dry, my

my face. Then, without warning, he pulled back. He leaned away from me and sat down on a chair straight across from where I sat.

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