NovelEnglishChapter One Hundred and Ninety Two
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety Two
RILEY
“How do you like this place?” Axel asked, “I mean, if it's not good enough for you, we could arrange something else.”
“Itis fine” | muttered.
“Do you need...”
“No,” I snapped before he could complete his sentence.
What the hell was wrong with me?
“Okay then, I'll leave you to get settled,” he says, before walking away and leavingall alone.
1 walked straight to the bathroom.
This would be a very long bath
I set the hot bath. Gosh, | missed this. | sat in the tube; the warmth was so welcoming; | leaned against the marble and easily fell asleep.
The footsteps wokeup.
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There Thane stood, always the pervert, watchingbathe. The bubbles had died down, revealing a little too
much cleavage. My first instinct was to wrap my hands around my bare parts, but then that would make him
know how his gaze still affected me. Instead, | remained in the bathtub, making no move to cover up.
“Why are you here?”
“I brought sfood; you must be famished, just as | am.”
“We are not dining together.”
“No?, then how would we make sure the food isn’t poisoned?” he asked, his signature smirk still on his face.
| rose from the bathtub, very aware of his hot gaze on me.
He whispered something along the lines of ‘Killnow, Riley."
| picked up a robe, wrapping it around my body, before walking to him.
“How | would love to do just that,” | responded.
The tray of food waited on the table; | was going to have to sit beside him. That was too close -closer than | was
prepared to be right now.
Still, | took a seat, and he sat beside me. To my surprise, he put sdistance between us. Not
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that | was complaining.
“I want to ask you a question,” | began.
“Well, ask on,” he says, clearly interested.
“You say you didn’t send those soldiers to those packs; Were you telling the truth?”
“Yes, even if you still don’t believe me.”
“If you can remember, something happened back at the mate ball; it had been that very day I discovered elder Bailey injured in the woods. I had left the
party, triggered by what | saw in a particular hidden room.
1 don't believe you were being completely truthful when | asked what those pictures were doing there.”
“You are right,” he says, and for sreason, | felt disappointed; a part ofstill hoped | wasn't right. “I didn't lie to you but | hadn't told you the
complete truth then. We had considered this plan, what many now refer to as the ‘new era’, where there would be no Alphas but the Alpha King, me.
Bailey had brought about this idea before she left on the mission. She had believed she was going to defeat the elder who managed to escape, but the
elders wouldn't be the only threat, to assure the crown remains in the Nightshade packs, she thought that it was a sensible solution to kill every other
Alpha.”
“And you agreed to it?"
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Thane paused. “This plan would lead to a lot of bloodshed, but I have been born into this; in the world | know, you do anything to stay on top.”
“Even if it includes killing innocents?”
“It is never my intention, but people would always die, simply because they were in the wrong at the wrong time. Still yet, | never did go on with the
Bailey plan; we had disagreed on it because it wasn't worth it, Riley. | am not the one behind all these.”
1 believed him. | hated how easily | believed him, but I did. When Zed's men had cin here, they found nothing, not because the clues were hidden but
because there was nothing to be found.
“Have you considered the possibility that Bailey masterminded all this?”
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