The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 158
I held what I hoped looked like a warm smile on my face when I saw Iris the next morning for breakfast. Internally, though, I reeled with shock.
She looked unbelievably different. Her energy was different, too.
Iris wore a crisp beige blouse and a floral print skirt, apparently having gone shopping by now, and had her hair pulled back into a tidy ponytail. She still gave me an eerie feeling; there was something very off about her. But that wild, menacing energy I had gotten from her in the past was gone.
h as possible when we first sat down. Until I told her outright that I would like it if we could have a fresh start between us and forg
der squeezed my hand under the table, grateful.
il our bedroom door was c
t better now than before.”
member how she was when she first got here. Today
see my problem. And this is a woman who took care of my mother, you know… I feel like I have to help her when she clearly n
I understand.”
okshelf, which Nina had organized for me the other da
t elevated.
ase. Come and help me.”
long the top line: Murder Investigation. I underlined it twice.
tempting to hide that excitement. She said she was available any time and looking forward to it.
k again?” I asked Alexand
roblem.” He went to his office and returned quickly, holding the heavily doge
in graphic detail the final moments of Alexandra’s life.
was that poisoned her. And what happened to Iris afterward… who shot her.”
in my own personal shorthand to keep up with the pace of his speech.
g to. “You sure you’re okay about that?”
not news to me, Alex. Like I told you.”
, studying my face
r was involved in his mother’s murder, though he did not know how.
could hear it. But I told him I knew this already, that I picked up on it a long tim
dent the first moment that I had seen them interact. The vitriol in Alexander’s eyes, the anger with which he menaced my father—I knew it was about something deeper than just the fiasco of my unexpected pregnancy.
me, had gotten himself into a blood feud with my Alpha long before he and I ever met.
t I now believe was Scarlet’s scheme…”
second time. “Alexander, I am your Luna. My loyalty has been with you for a long time.”
He nodded gravely
eah?” He pulled
u said, ‘we’ don’t know his rol
ion together, all along?”
“No.”
mentioned it earlier, when I started showing you my notes.”
e. Can you, um, do you want to tell me anything else about his part in the investigation? Anything I should know, that could help with what I’m doing?”
y heartbeat was picking up speed.
peared. That’s when he had me cover for him at work.
im, any new development I find. We strategize together.”
old me about any of this? Or that I am helping you?”
on’t know if he would be comfortable knowing I have let anyone at all into the loop. I will find a way to tell him. When we need to.”
I nodded.
raid. For several long seconds, while Alexander and I sat side by side in silence, two opposite impulses went to war in my mind. I wanted badly to k
ds just leapt out of my throat.
my father is now?”
o space. That told me an awful lot.
ok his head side to side in slow motion. “No. I heard a story, b
down into my stomach.
k hold of my hand. The heat of his touch was shock
d said, “I will find out.”
Alexander
the feeling that she actually did not want to know all the details.
answered her question about this honestly.
en my phone rang,
n.
put it on speaker.
uments and deliberation in the embezzlement case.
. And so should she.”