Edira stared at her grandson before sighing. "Are you sure you want to see her? If you are seen with her, your mother will only beco even more chaotic."
"Then let her be." Killian took a determined step forward to the room where Inez was getting treated. "She needs to understand that I am not her possession. I am her son, but that’s all I will ever be to her. She doesn’t fucking own ."
"Killian—"
"Silence!" Killian snapped. His voice rang with so much authority that every lycan in the room, including Edira, knelt on the floor. He then turned to look at Morrineth, who was kneeling beside her son and said to her, "It seems like you are having quite a lot of fun due to the connections and power that you have received by becoming a mber of the council. But let tell you sothing... this power was handed to you in exchange for the life of your daughter."
"Killian!" Morrineth raised her head and looked at the man in shock. She never thought that Killian would bring this matter up in front of everyone, and that too, like this. "You can’t—"
Killian, however, ignored her cries and turned to look at Fenric, who was looking at his mother in shock. "You keep on harping that I was left scot-free and that I should have been thrown into prison for what happened to your sister, right? Then let tell you sothing. It was your mother who arranged for the deal. She threatened that if I didn’t hand her a position on the council, she would file a complaint against ."
"It was never about her being kind-hearted, Fenric."
Fenric turned to look at his mother at once. He said to her, "He is lying to , isn’t he? Tell , Mom! Say that he is lying. You didn’t... You didn’t do it, did you?"
"I... of course I didn’t—"
"Want to call, Seth?" Killian asked. His jaw clenched tight as he suppressed the urge to curl his fingers around Morrineth’s throat and kill her right then and there.
Morrineth whipped her head to the front and glared at him. "Killian, you promised that you would never breathe a word about it!" She did little to hold back her shriek.
"I did and I am still holding onto that." His eyes flashed lycan as he said to the woman, "So you better not step on my bottom line once again, Morrineth or else you will lose everything that’s dear to you."
Fenric stared at Killian and then slowly turned his head around to look at his mother. "What is he talking about?"
Morrineth didn’t reply. When Killian’s aura lifted off the lycans, she got to her feet and scrambled out of the main lodge. Killian watched her leave and then turned to look at his grandmother, who was looking at him with an apprehensive expression.
"What?"
"It seems like I truly underestimated her. She has beco sothing to you, hasn’t she?" When he didn’t say anything, Edira rolled her eyes and said to him, "You better accept the truth, Kill or else I am not letting you see her."
"What truth?"
"That she is more than just a bed buddy to you," the older woman replied. "I know you, Kill. You are not the kind of person who jumps the gun; I bet you have been trying to rationalise what exactly draws you to her. And I think you blad it on the fact that Inez didn’t accept you right away, like every other woman does, and you thought it was just the rush of the chase. But it’s because she sees you, right?"
Though his grandmother didn’t add ’like your mother never did’, Killian could hear those words.
"And she expects more than just the shiny, playboy side that you show to everyone," said Selene from the side. She then paused and added, "Did you see yourself in the last few days, Killian? In the past, if grandma had stopped you from seeing a woman, you would have at most moped for a while before quickly moving on to the next one. But this ti around, you stayed away from every female throwing themself at you. And you looked pissed at everything and everyone. Didn’t even charm that new submissive lycan that joined the pack."
"What I think they are trying to say is that you are too far gone to stop yourself," explained Laxus as he glanced at Selene. "You better get that girl before you lose her, Kill. Was that it?"
"Yes."
Killian pursed his lips before saying to them, "You don’t need to tell this thing. I have decided that she is mine and nothing is going to change it."
Edira stared at him for two seconds before saying, "Well, it seems like you are finally growing up."
**
Inez didn’t know how long she had been out. But when she opened her eyes, she found a bunch of infuriated lycans in the room where she was lying. She could sense that sothing was very wrong and was about to ask what was going on, but the second she opened her mouth, she ended up choking hard.
"Careful. Here, drink so water first." Nyx, who was right next to her, handed her a glass of water.
Inez was glad that she had because she felt parched as if she hadn’t drunk anything for days.
"What happened?" she asked after taking generous gulps of water from the glass.
"You don’t rember?" Nyx frowned and replied, "You were attacked."
The swimming pool, the snake shifter and their battle to the death.
As soon as Nyx finished speaking, all the mories ca rushing back. Inez sat upright but winced when the side of her waist stung like a little bitch.
"Don’t move. You knocked your side on the floor pretty hard... though the healers did their job quite well, you still need so rest." Ajax helped her down. However, the lycan was not looking at her; it was quite clear that he was blaming himself.
"Ajax—"
"Don’t say that I shouldn’t feel guilty. I made a mistake. And I deserve drowning in guilt."
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