Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Chapter 254

Chapter 254 Coincidence

Felix led the way and as soon as the door opened, they were assaulted with the sickly-sweet metallic stench of blood and Lexi tried her best not to gag.

“NO!” Felix shouted in disbelief as he ran towards the bed, leaving bloody footprints in the blood that had pooled on the floor.

“She was right here!” He wailed in anguish as Lexi and Adam exchanged a look before venturing further inside the room.

“Felix?” Lexi asked, the unspoken question in her voice hanging heavily in the air above them.

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“I swear she was right here!” Felix replied as he gestured to the bloody mess on the bed.

“I hope that rules us out as suspects in this Felix, we’ve been with you the whole time,” Adam commented carefully as he swept his gaze around the room.

Felix looked at him with uncertainty, but even he had to admit that there was no way that Allen or Adam could have pulled something like this off.

“This… I don’t remember seeing this…” Felix frowned as he reached for the dagger that lay partially hidden under the pillow, “It could have moved when I… had my final moments with Aoife though.” He admitted softly, silently cursing at himself for not being more observant when he came across her body.

“It’s understandable, don’t think too much about what you should or shouldn’t have done Felix. You were distraught. No wolf thinks rationally at the time of their mate’s passing.”

Lexi tiptoed carefully past them and through the congealing blood on the floor to squint carefully at the dagger. There was no way that she was removing her hand from her nose, for all the good that it did her.

to the two males at her side. “Smell what?” Felix asked with a baffled expression, “If

The

lungful of air, the taste of the blood and sulfur sticking to her airways and making

the creature that

fighting the urge to vomit all over the

asked hopefully, “At this point, the first thing I want is her body back, so I can give her the send-off that she deserves. Then I’ll stop

find the murderer at the same time you find the body, honestly.” Lexi grimaced, “But this whole scene… it’s just too

do you mean? What coincidence?” Felix asked

a break, will you? I’m trying to think in all of this stench.” Lexi

finish gagging, Felix reached for the knife on the bed, but Adam stopped him, shaking

been poisoned or not, at least grab some gloves to handle it

and emerged a few seconds later,

things,” He shrugged quietly as he

held her breath as she put it on and immediately pinched her nose shut over the top, at least it seemed to dull the sensation of

turned the knife carefully in his hand as he and Adam examined

my mother was murdered.” Lexi said finally, as soon as she had caught her breath, “Her

snapped to Lexi’s

but he’ll be able to tell you whether or not the similarities are as obvious as I think they are. I was only a baby when my mother was… well… when all the evidence pointed to her being murdered. Papa

frowned as he

with a hint of urgency

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