The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 175
The young man who’d been apprehended at the nightclub was bedraggled, pale, hungover and practically jumping out of his skin.
I didn’t sit right beside him like I’d done with the soldiers. I sat across the table instead. And I didn’t touch him when he came in. I just waited quietly, keeping the man under my watchful gaze.
He was twitchy and anxious, with a gray cloud of confusion hovering around him. His wide green eyes darted back and forth from me to Alexander compulsively, clearly intimidated by the both of us.
ssure.
ded.
last night? Why—”
iet.
e last time you saw Lucas?” Alex
?”
he hard floor. Simon’s body started to tremble all over.
oice was creepy quiet. “No playing innocent. No stalling. No lying. My wife here has a special skill, by the way. She knows if what you are saying is truthful or not. And you will not like what will happen
own frantically. “Y-yes, Sir,” he stammered.
eyes were glassy with fright.
“Remember what I jus
hand and delivered a hard slap to the man’s face.
okay? You don’t gotta do that shit. Ugh.”
once more. “Last time you saw Lucas.”
ed to meet me last night, but he didn’t show. I swear.”
couldn’t flinch and diffuse any of the impact.
en talk to him.”
ere did you see him?
na kill his game or something. Not like he needs any help with that.”
n opened and closed his mouth slowly, working his sore jaw. The entire left side of his face, the side that Alex had hit
him yesterday. We were supposed to meet at Bad Wolf. He didn’t reply and he didn’t show, either. That’s all I know, I swear.”
ex looked to me. I shrugged. Seemed like Simon was being truthful, but I wa
, flinching as Alex took hold of his wrist – and laid it on the table.
lt guilty, too.
you have to feel guilty about?” I asked calmly, m
d out of his mind.
swer her. Remember—no stalling.”
hings, I guess… I, uh, I dunno, lady, I’m sorry, I can ha
out seeing Lucas in the casino?”
ed, his eyes h
truth.”
o… does that mean I can go now?”
alace now, yes. All the way to the city jail.”
verything I know, man—”
you with tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of illegal substances in your pockets. You are going to jail tonight, Simon.”
eak for a quick, late lunch before heading back to the interrogation ro
from the dungeon and handed him off to Alexander.
than yesterday. A night in a cold, lonely cell had clear
room with him for hours.
produce results.
of sorts.
e of his emotional responses to each query, whether or not the man even opened his mouth to answer verbally. It was moderately successful, but did seem to take forever. And the longer I held onto Roland’s hand, the more depleted I felt.
omething.
ed if Roland had been working for Scarlet. And then again when asked if she was to credit for the idea of inciting the soldiers to abandon the palace on the night of the fight.
knowing that he was lying, plus Alexander’s intensely menacing energy, finally got him to spill a confession. “Yes, she paid me to get them out of the palace… but that was all I did, I
the purpose?”
to this. Only a shake of his bowed hea
surveillance on us?”
. So she could install spy cameras or bugs.
t know what she did when we were gone, That is all I know. That’s all I did. I am so sorry…”
felt immediate relief.
ex flatly.
ase, I promise you,
bbed the soldier by the throat and used this
“Please.” Like he wanted me to tell my husband to show him mercy.
ng daggers at the traitor.
teeth chattering. Alexander’s grip tightened around his throat. Roland grasped at Alex’s wrist, trying in vain to tear it away.
it.
my Alpha’s power today, watching him easily physically dominate another big strong man in front of me right now… it riled up my wolf, heated my blood and turned me on at a pr
ked eyes with me and smiled darkly.
re likely he smelled my arousal.
Oops.
out of the room, pacing backward slowly. But
privacy of our minds. Very bad.