The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 165

Fiona

I could tell Alexander wanted to talk about something. The way he was being really quiet, and giving me wary, meaningful looks, while I sipped my coffee.

“What is it?” I placed a hand to the center of his chest, and felt his heart beating fast. “What else has happened? You can tell me.”

nto one of the chairs.

ted getti

What now?

tack last night, after I’d fallen asleep? Was the war starting already? Or perhaps the Alpha King, after living through the crash, had died overnight in t

ur father?” I asked.

own on the table.

I told you I would find out what happened to him, and I did. I… I’m so sorry about this, Fiona—”

’t he?” The words just escaped my lips. I hadn’t meant to interrupt him.

Yes.

more doubt about it.

on top of the others in the pit of my stomach.

Like I might vomit.

.

many times. Who I had never planned to see again in my life.

be brave.

y, grief knows no logic. The tears just came.

y them, hold them in. Not blinking, staring at the

illed him.”

eyes back to Alexander’s.

” he said st

m so sorry.”

that he didn’t answer me. “Why, Alex? He just… murdered my father out of nowhere? What happened?”

g me over warily.

expected me to be upset about this?

t information from your father. They argued, and he lost his temper.”

ing him… he tortured him to death? Oh, my god…”

had known that Conrad was going to do an

. Alexander jumped up behind me and started following me around.

se.”

face him.

so heavily it sent a breeze floating through the room. “Ca

hing that I were not reacting this way.

? What triggered this?”

ng to be able to make me sit.

he bed, a short distance from me, and sat down himself though.

ago, Conrad became aware that your father was leaving town, and he took it upon himself to follow him to find out why. He thought it had something to do with our ca

hen he was on his

“Yes.”

ollowing my father?”

ust surveilling him. I had told Conrad explicitly not to harm him. To leave him alone. Not to torture him for information.

let it happen. And you didn’t tell me. You just let me be worried sick for weeks instead, wondering what had become of him. My god, Alex…”

anned this, and I didn’t—”

had my father killed. And used me to cover it up.”

—”

ised you wouldn’t keep things from me anymore. Things that affect me. Things that matter. This matters.”

please. I

u should have known better.”

ds and groaned.

ame on my family based on nothing but suspicion, and then…”

know this man. Not the way I thought I did, at least.

ething worse. Heart-wrenching disappointment.

place.

rad will be caught. And you will be implicated.”

en.”

is will be bad for all of us. Don’t you see? What will your pack think if they find out their King would kill his own father-in-law for personal revenge?”

”

my knees could buckle underneath me.

nd.

Alex. How could you—”

struck me in my abdomen, and I screamed.

water broke.