The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 38
I frowned. “This is just a contract marriage,” I said. “Why are you asking me about love?”
Alexander looked at me silently. His breathing became heavier, and then he rose to stand.
He turned away from me, putting his hands on his hips and looking across the room to the open window. Then he spun around and left without another word, slamming the door behind him on his way out.
unned.
ld was born, and our arrangement was no longer necessary.
he thought I was the mole that conspired with my father to reveal his secrets and undermine him. I left the room quietly, locking the door behind me and double-checking to ensure it was secure.
started walking to the kitchen slowly, my mind swirling.
of my guilt. He must have felt obligated to question me, considering the tremendous responsibility weighing on him at this moment when his operation had been made vulnerable.
pt end of our discussion. If he believed what I told him and understood that I was innoce
o wondered… what else Alexand
or my phone, sudd
window.
down a stone path through the rose garden instead, and texted Nina
gh the garden, pausing every few feet to smell the perfume wafting from the bl
t me to see if Kayden can bring me over there?
a little bit. Can I come to you?
na: Ofc! Come on over
n my heel and hurried back to our room, pausing only as I passed the kitchen door. I thought about going in to grab something to eat, but my mind was on a one-way track right now. I needed
of crumbly orange bricks.
ht back and forth from one foot to the other.
g.
of stairs to her apartment.
“You okay, Fi?” she asked quietly. I saw her eyes rove my bod
r to the couch and plopped down on it. The stairs had wiped me out.
at something.” Nina knelt beside the couc
ng, making me realize how very out of shape I had gotten since I put training, and basically all my life activities, on pause.
ash out if you want. But you gotta drink some water first, at least. And eat something too if you can.”
a loaf of bread and a bowl of butter, a sliced apple, and
d some water first, then endeavored to eat a chunk of bread with butter, finding my appetite coming back enough to let me swallow it down.
xt to me. “There’s something I need to tell you, Fiona. And it might not be the right time, but you need to know, and I wasn’t even sure how I was going to be able to tell you, with everything you said about not being able to tal
rible.
e I knew immediately that it was true.
n her eyes.
tense exhale. “Before I left the palace.” She shook her head and hung
iven Fiona the letter from my father. She had slipped it into the pocket of her shorts. “Did Kayden fi
as with him the whole time.”
rrowed my eyes as I pieced together the scene. “You were with Kayden… but not your clothes?”
and I were, well…”
ew how bad this could be for me. I felt my body start to shake with anxiety.
pulled a blanket around my shoulders suddenly. “Let me make you some tea,” she said, and she slipped away to the
racy against him and the King Pack… they most definitely would have shown it to him.
hamomile with honey.
her. “I need to talk to Alexander.”
a shaky breath. “Are you sure?
hen I need to make sure he knows it’s not true.”