The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 192
Fiona
We were just getting out of the car with Lexi when Nina’s shiny silver Benz appeared in the parking lot behind us. She grabbed several bags out of the trunk then trotted over to where we stood waiting, then the four of us walked inside together.
Nina went with me into the nursery while Alex paid a visit to the restroom. She set her bags down by the door and waited till I had the baby on the changing table before coming close to me and whispering, “Hey. I, uh, have news about your…” The word “mom” she only mouthed, did not say aloud. Her eyes darted through the doorway in the direction of the bathroom.
ave Nina a tight nod. I mouthed the word “later.” She read my lips and nodded. I changed the subject for now by
rinned.
rview room, where Kayden would soon be meeting us with the traitor.
eaded to his study and he went straight for his desk, looking through the drawers until he found a roll of clear packing tape that he took with us to
the roll of tape when
en brought him into the room a few minutes later. Then he looked up at Alexand
ver since my run-in with Iris the previous day.
er world when we saw each other yesterday. All it took to trigger the connection that second time was eye contact.
ver since he learned my role and purpose in these interrogations with my husband.
lex that today I wanted to hold Roland’s hand and look into his eyes, while ask
h our interview.
ay.”
end, ripping the plastic apart with a loud, disson
up to meet mine.
. They were flat brown, tired-looking and unemotive… on the surface…
s what it was that I
ing to do in
feeling. That’s the only way I can think to explain it.
ed I had not blinked in far too long. My eyes were dry and pained.
shook my head and blinked a dozen or so tim
en refocused
lse involved?”
pooked” look. I had only suspected, after studying his energy, that he was worried about someone.
behind me and growing frustrated already.
could tell that now. He had some sort of a protective wall of his own in
improvising. “Have you been threatened? Are yo
. I was finally getting somewhere.
. “What else did you give Scarlet?”
zed the wall in Roland’s mind. Then I visualized dropping a wrecking ball down into that wall.
ew open and he tried to wrench free of my grasp. He star
release my grip on him. I was feeling it al
deep breath and let my desperately dry eyes blink furiously as I absorbed everything.
felt it all, but that didn’t mean I could make sense of
rific event.
en damaged in here.
roken down, and now it was out.
est clearing from my dream. Only now it was dark out, and I really was all alone.
as sinking like quicksand.
pulling on my ankles, sucking me down into it.
ounce of my soul with a force impossible to resist. I opened my mouth to scream but no sound came out.
went black, and then moved inward slowly, contrac
nto the earth.
l that was. left was black, and the feeling of falling… down, do