Chapter 30 | Have Nothing to Do with You
Charles POV
Aubrey reached out; she lightly wrapped her arms around me. | was startled and pressed back tightly against the
driver's seat.
My face grew even redder; it felt like my brain had shut down completely. All | could think was at this distance...
was she trying to....
Then | heard a faint click- Aubrey had unlocked the car door.
As soon as the lock clicked, she abruptly pulled away. The flirtatious look on her face vanished, replaced by a
cold indifference.
“Don’t callyour cousin again. We're not related by blood, and we will never be friends. Stop following
me.”
With that, Aubrey got out of the car. | wanted to stop her; my hand reached out instinctively, but in the end. 1 let
it fall helplessly.
| hadn't realized that things between Aubrey and Aunt had gotten this bad so bad that the entire Lynn family had
turned against her.
For sreason, it leftfeeling heavy inside.
Frustrated, | shifted into wolf form and ran deep into the forest to clear my head. | couldn't figure it out hadn't
done anything to Aubrey. Why did she resentso much? Just because of a few biased words I'd said earlier?
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtAubrey’s POV
After getting out of the car, | went straight to a sportswear store on the street and bought a change of clothes;
then | found a small motel and checked in. My status was too complicated - only places like this wouldn't ask
questions.
Werewolves here were far removed from the power centers; most wouldn't recognizeas Alpha Henry's
former fiancée.
After showering and changing into dry clothes, | finally lay on the bed and felt a sense of relief.
The room smelled faintly musty; | didn’t mind at all. I'd slept in far worse places - this was already an
improvement.
After ten minutes, | got up again. | still had something to do.
No matter how tired | was, as long as | hadn't been captured or crippled, | never skipped the training my
grandfather had taught me.
In my past life, | had lived to thirty-one; | had cto fully appreciate the value of this training. | even
suspected that part of the reason/I hadn't died from the Lupine Virus and had instead beca latent carrier -
was thanks to my ancient werewolf bloodline, this training, and the medicinal baths | had taken regularly.
So | couldn't afford to neglect it.
The moment were complex and demanding. I'd waited training when | was hist ots gears old, but in wen’t um 1
wat ten than | could truly sense the form of energy within me
The Merswill merlilion relepe I'd learned depended entirely on that energy every nezille reflect on it
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| had to keep my crength and focus sharp at all times.
After a while, | was drenched in sweat. Subdenly, a loud crash erupted by my ear.
Startled, | turned my head - a large black wolf had smashed through the wooden window and leapt inside. It hit
the Bloor with a thud, then shifted back into human form, lying motionless on the floor.
What the heck? My body aching, | cautiously approached. | knew these small motels weren't exactly safe. but
this? | hadn't expected things to be this bad.
Before | could get too close, the man stirred, he frowned and lifted his head.
“So disgusting. Get away from me.”
As he spoke, his eyes had already turned red; his fangs bared as he snarled at me. The threat was clear-if! dared
to scream, he'd ripapart.
| did instinctively take half a step back-not because he was intimidating, but because of the face | now saw in
the dim light.
Pale as cold moonlight, the face was almost unnervingly handsome. His long, narrow eyes slanted slightly
upward: thick lashes cast sharp shadows beneath them. His irises were a rare dark gold, like poisoned
cornflowers. Across the bridge of his nose ran an old scar- not disfiguring, but adding a dangerous wildness to an
otherwise perfect face.
Wet black hair clung to his forehead; droplets slid along his sharp jawline before vanishing beneath the open
collar of his black shirt.
Even now, curled on the floor in a sorry state, an oppressive aura radiated from him- elegant, but deadly. like a
predator lurking in the midnight forest.
Most striking of all was the obsidian earring in his left ear; in the dim light, it gleamed with a ghostly blue- like a
wolf's eye glowing in the dark.
Mateo. It was him... What kind of luck was this? | had only gone out for one night, and | had already run into
Bailey's future benefactor- the very executioner who would one day sendto hell.
Suddenly, he lifted his gaze; his violet pupils narrowed to slits - the telltale sign that a werewolf was ready to
strike.
“Keep staring and I'll gouge your eyes out.” His voice was low and rough, like sandpaper dragging over silk.
I almost laughed. Such familiar words. In my past life, he had said the sthing to- “Scream again and Ill
cut out your tongue.”
And now, the man who would one day shoveinto the abyss was bleeding out on the floor of my cheap motel
room.
A sudden knock at the door.
“Security check!” a rough male voice called, accompanied by pounding. “Someone reported a fugitive!”
Mateo narrowed his eyes; blood was seeping from a grueswound on his abdomen. Yet even now, he bared
his fangs and threatened me.
“Send them away, or I'll kill you.”
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