Chapter 64

Zenovia

Maria must have noticed my expressions because she added, “Do not worry, my dear. Callahan is a busy man, and he would return as soon as his work is completed.”

I nodded at that and finished my plate of sandwiches and gulped down the juice because she would not let me leave without that.

“Good girl”

She said, and I was reminded of lum again. I shook my head.

Maybe this was for the better. I had to give myself some space and time to know what I felt for him and what it could mean

to me.

As much as I craved him, there was no denying that he was the Lycan King and at most I could be his breeder, not his chosen mate or anything else.

Thus, I walked out of the big dining hall and made my way towards the open grounds. There were not many people around except for one or two gardeners.

Where did the rest of the pack train and exercise?

I wondered and looked around. The mansion was huge, but it was not crammed with people. In fact, I had only seen Drusilla, Matteo and Elijah inside, along with the servants and maids.

I made my way towards the garden and was relieved to find a familiar figure.

“Elijah,” I called out, and he turned around.

Seeing me,

he gave me a smile and waved at me.

“Hey, good morning”

1 jogged up to reach him and asked, “Where is everybody? The mansion feels pretty empty.”

Elijah shrugged. “Where everybody is supposed to be. At the pack house.”

I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.

“Where is that? I have not really met the rest of the members of the pack.”

Elijah gave it some thought, as if debating what to answer.

“You didn’t expect the entire pack to live in the mansion, right?”

“Eh

He chuckled.

I did not see any of

not just ours. That was because the ball was only for the leaders of a pack, alpha, beta, gamma and, in

made a big fuss about wanting to

question lingering in

find

“A few did.”

King?” I could

find one while the curse is still in effect, but yes, he did not choose

so

packs. But he doesn’t like living there much either. He only uses it for work and meetings. Though, nowadays,

the

I asked, and Elijah

sure. Maybe he had too many meetings to attend and stuff like that. In fact, the mansion was mostly abandoned and he liked to live with the others in the pack house. But then, as

I mumbled.

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even you arrived around the same time. Maybe it served as

Why would Callahan abandon his people and come to live with me in a giant mansion? That would signify that I was some important person

my head. “The King needed an anchor, I heard. Is that why I was brought to the mansion? To be sacrificed in some

in my head were a little weird, but there was some

far, none of them had harmed me, but it felt similar to raising a chicken to be cooked

the time is right. I am not authorised to tell you anything.” He gave

noticed the way he was sharing his

to convince him. He did not want to live alone in the mansion and. leave the others unsafe. But it was Drusilla who pointed out that nobody would attack his pack, they would

“Why is that?”

the gate and

the road, which was relatively empty, given the fact that the mansion was closer to the

attacks on the pack, but almost nobody got hurt. Callahan spent literally weeks fortifying the pack house and setting up advanced safety measures to ensure that nothing would get in without permission. He also trained us to the point that we

was easy to talk to, and he

without wanting to

would be awkward for me to explain that.

grew a little denser and he left the road to

forest.

going?” I asked, and he replied. “Didn’t you

is the best idea to introduce me to them. Callahan never did.”

to do than show you around. Plus, now he would not even want you

mansion”

eyes had heated and there was a hint of accusation in them when he said that I

people knew where I had been last night, or that Callahan had saved me from

mansion so would I be going against his orders if I went to his

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