NovelEnglishChapter 137: Chapter 137: Trapped Between Hunters
Selene’s POV~
I could not move.
The file lay at my feet like a cr| had been caught with. The sound of the papers falling still rang in my ears.
Their eyes did not leave me.
Aeron stepped forward first. He did not speak. He only pointed at the chair in the center of the hall. His gaze was
enough. It toldwhat to do.
My throat was dry. My legs shook. Still, | obeyed. | would not want to raise their suspicion more toward me.
Slowly, | walked to the chair and sat down. My heart beat so hard that I thought it would break through my chest.
The three of them moved around me. Like hunters circling prey.
Kael stood at my left. Luca at my right. Aeron straight in front. Their bodies closedin, leaving no escape.
The air grew heavy. | could feel it pressing down on me. | could feel them pressing down on me.
I did not understand their eyes. They were not cold alone, neither angry alone. There was something else.
Something | could not name. Something that made my stomach twist with dread.
It would have been better if they had been in rage and barked orders to their beta or gamma to dragout of
here, but no—they had decided to play with my emotions.
Countless questions stormed inside my head. Did they know? Did they see me? Did they know who | was?
No. No, they could not know. If they knew the truth, | would not be sitting in front of them.
But still, why were their eyes so sharp? Why were they watchinglike this? Why did it feel as if they were
looking past my skin, deep inside me?
| gripped the chair to steady myself. My nails dug into the wood. My whole body trembled. Yet in the middle of all
this fear, another feeling rose inside me.
It was wrong. It was wild. My heart was not only afraid. It was... beating like hell, and | was sure they could hear
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| wanted to scream at them to stop looking atlike that. | wanted to demand what they wanted. But my voice
stayed locked in my throat.
Aeron’s eyes stayed steady on me. Kael’s lips curved as if he almost knew something. Luca's stare burned the
side of my face until | had to turn away.
I hated it. | feared it.
Three hunters. One prey.
And | was caught.
Aeron suddenly leaned down toward me. Maybe he thought to end my misery and break this suffocating silence.
His face was just inches from mine. My breath caught in my chest. | wanted to move and blink, but couldn't.
His stormy grey eyes locked onto mine. They burned into me. My forehead grew damp with sweat. My lips
parted, but no sound came.
"Who are you?" he asked.
His voice was deep and low. It rumbled throughlike a storm shaking the earth.
The question slammed into my chest. My heart jumped. But a sigh escaped me. Relief washed overfor a
moment. Maybe they really did not know who | was. Maybe they only caughtfor stealing, not for what | truly
was.
So | decided to answer back with the lie | had already prepared in my mind. "Alpha... | am just a human girl. |
was only trying to clean the room."
Kael gave a sharp laugh, low in his throat. "A human girl, cleaning, inside our hall?" He scoffed at my lie. "Do you
take us for fools?"
The words sounded weak, even to my own ears. | knew the moment they left my lips that they would not believe
me. And | was right. None of them moved. None of them looked away. Instead, | saw it—the spark in their eyes.
The curiosity. The interest. It grew sharper, hotter, as if my lie had only tiedtighter in their net.
My lips trembled. My chest burned. | wanted to explain more. | wanted to give them a reason, any reason, for
why | was near their file. My mind spun with excuses, one after another, but none seemed strong enough to save
me.
"Speak," Aeron said, his voice low and sharp. "Do not waste our time."
| swallowed hard. My words failed me. My tongue was dry, my mind blank.
Aeron’s eyes searched mine. He studiedas if he could read every thought, every secret, just by watching my
face. Then, without warning, he pulled back. He leaned away fromand sat down on a chair straight across
from where | sat. His eyes never left me.
Silence filled the room. My nerves cracked under it. Then, from my side, | heard the soft sound of water pouring.
| turned my head. Luca stood there with a glass in his hand. He was rather calm and quiet, opposite of the sight |
had seen. His movements smooth, almost gentle. He poured the water and slid the glass toward me.
"Calm down," he said. His voice was softer than Aeron’s but still heavy. "Drink."
My eyes snapped to his. My breath froze again. "Why..." | whispered, though the word barely left me. "Why give
My chest tightened. Suspicion rushed through me. My gaze fell to the glass. What if there was something inside?
What if he had mixed something? What if it was poison? Or worse, a drug to makesurrender?
| looked at him from under my lashes, trying to hide the doubt in my eyes, but he saw it anyway. Luca’s lips
curved, almost like a smirk. Then, slow and steady, he lifted the glass himself and drank every drop right in front
of me.
The sound of his throat swallowing filled the silence. He set the empty glass down and filled it again. His
movements were slow, deliberate, as if he wantedto watch every second. He slid the glass back to me.
"See," he said. His eyes glinted. "Now you can drink."
Kael leaned in close, his voice a whisper at my ear. "If we wanted to do something, do you think we would stoop
so low?"
Heat burned in my cheeks. My heart slammed against my ribs. He had caughtdoubting him. He knew | did
not trust him, but I didn’t want to give them the opportunity to doubtmore.
So, without another word, | grabbed the glass and lifted it to my lips. The cool water touched my mouth.
Then only | realized just how parched my throat was... it was dry and aching. So, without stopping, | drank it all
in one gulp. The water slid down my throat fast, cooling the fire in my chest but not the heat crawling under my
skin.
| set the glass back down, my hand shaking. Slowly, | raised my eyes to his again. Luca's gaze was steady. My
breath caught. I did not know what would happen next. | only knew one thing.
| was already too deep in trouble, and these men were definitely toying with me.
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