Their Secret Obsession by Pippa Moon

Chapter 143 I Am No Liar!

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Knox POV

“That’s enough from you!” Astaroth grunted, flicking his wrist in my direction, my body slamming into the wall with such force I felt a trickle of blood seep from my nose.

Maybe I wasn’t invisible after all, he was just censoring my actions from them. Crafty, but smart!

“Knox!” Lottie screamed as she rose to her feet, but Astaroth

was quicker stepping in front of her to block her path.

“No! He is fine, but we need to have this conversation because time is running out! And I will be damned if I don’t get what is owed to me.” Astaroth bellowed around the walls of the cathedral, rubble

crumbled from the ceiling from the force of his anger.

Sucking down my defeat, I watched through pained eyes as he continued his speech, he was definitely comfortable being the centre of attention and enjoyed having all eyes on him.

“Now.. back to the question. Ask yourself why would I be interested in Havoc’s offspring? A wolf that has been hidden? That

is as chaotic and ravenous as…”

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“SHUT UP!” I bellowed through my own raging mind as my outrage simmered beneath the surface, not wanting him to finish. his sentence. His lips split into a smile as he turned to look at me. I could feel Havoc’s anxiety seeping through our bond like poison, twisting and gnawing at my insides. It made no sense, yesterday he had been ready to rip everyone apart, this demon included. Even earlier, he was willing to fight him to get to Lottie.

into my mind of the harrowing vision of my girl stepping through the portal, while Kane tumbled to the ground from Astaroth’s attack. I knew at that moment that there was no choice. Kane

Lottie didn’t!

alone with the filth that had screwed with MY mind! What could he do to her? To our

have saved her,” I

those sapphire hues I adored. I knew without asking that Astaroth was

Easily!” Astaroth grinned slyly. “However he didn’t, he

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it was the brotherly bond with my twin that Havoc was feeding off. But now, when I recall the

truth!” Astaroth

surface even at my desperate inner plea, a silent testament to the fear that Astaroth had him gripped in. Which

I reached out to my wolf,

the room as he approached me, a

eyes filled with questions she was too scared to ask as she crouched beside Chase, her presence the only light in the darkness that threatened to consume us all whole. I drank in the sight of her, the fierce determination

to choke out, but even as

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presence, Astaroth’s taunts lingered like a shadow, his eyes boring into me with a malevolent intensity that

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the tense room. Kane’s horse cry filled the room, the sound like nails on a chalkboard to me. I had always hated

While his words got Lottie’s attention as she spun to look at him, her lips pursed tightly, her eyes darting to Kane, who remained wrapped in a world of torture at Astaroth’s pleasure. She was undoubtedly holding back. whatever it was she wanted to say, no doubt out of fear the demon would take out

goddess takes her payment! And you lose everything!” He continued to mock, letting out a sigh. I watched my girl step into the demon, her eyes

rage.

charade Astaroth, what is it you are trying to tell us? You want us