Chapter 56

The way Callahan said those words made me shudder. Had he said that only because he was angry, or had he really meant.

it?

Did he truly care for me, or was simply trying to threaten Sid into giving him more information?

I had no idea, but I felt certain that I had heard his voice crack and his eyes had shone with worry upon seeing me plastered on the wall. I had definitely not imagined the relief that had escaped his body when I snuggled into his embrace.

But then why had he become so cold to me all of a sudden?

“P-please. King. I…I will do as you say,” Sid was begging to Callahan, but Callahan was the least bothered.

He only came near me and looked me in the eye.

“I want you to trust me on this, okay?”

I blinked in confusion. “On what?”

But before I could ask him further, he gently pulled me up from the couch and brought me near Sid. I recoiled when Sid’s hand fell on my feet, or more like Callahan grabbed Sid’s collar and dragged him towards me.

“She is the one you have to apologize to,” Callahan muttered, and Sid looked up at me with pleading eyes.

“Please Zenovia, we lived together. You know how much I cared for you.”

But Callahan’s confidence was infectious. He stood beside me firmly and I felt like he was radiating his confidence and charisma, some of which seeped into my body.

was as if I suddenly found

that I was the one forcing myself on

wide, but he was not the only one who had this reaction. Callahan was

managed to croak, “I told you Mom wanted you out of the way. I could not say no to her. She wanted to sell you to the highest bidder at another auction, but I took Lycan King’s name before she could send you to

breath of relief. glad that Callahan had not

merely

up, but stayed on the ground while trying to

Lycan King. I have to show the rogue King that I brought you.”

“So you wanted to ‘rescue’ her from

shook his

is not strong or fit enough to be of any use to

flicked towards me. “But I wanted to speak to you

doubt

mind

were you so s sure that he would believe

the mansion and take you all by himself. So, his best bet was me,

his brain whirring as he came up with

put the King at risk, I

“Is that what you were trying to

took the injection in his hand and studied it, the tip of the needle gleaming in the

make me compliant to his wishes,” I replied

you I was going to take you to the place I was

upon her?” Callahan asked, and he

I would have the first claim to her, not the fogue King But I really wanted to save

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