The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 70

Alexander

I scrubbed a hand down my face, suddenly feeling like I was sobering up.

What I had just said to Fiona was terrible. In my head and in my heart, I believed none of it to be true.

unstoppable on the battlefield and saved my life a thousand times over in the face of mortal danger.

by surprise like that before. I’d been able to control it since I was a teenager. Able to wait for the right time to let it out, only unlocking the box that held it inside when I had a deserving victim in front of me. Like

Not Fiona.

ly.

gone too far. Let the darkest part of me spill out unbidden, let

the handkerchief against her heavy eyelashes from underneath to pat them dry.

logy was just behind my

o her again. Tell her that I didn’t mean it. That I had only lost control.

less than ten minutes, I had betrayed that promise severely, becoming a person who had hurt her. Who was I to make more promises now?

heavy exhale and pushed her chair back, starting to stand up slowly.

neutral and indifferent.

ke again before I coul

tion, and she stared down at me coldly, her blue eyes as shiny and clear as ice. “In case you have forgotten, our engagement is not a love relationship. You only ever planned to marry me for the health of our child, and then you are going to divorce me after it is born, remem

had seemed to inflict upon her just minutes ago.

nly repeating back to me now the precise words that I had spoken to her on the day that I stole her away from her wedding to Baron. I

k then. He’d been telling me that Fiona was something special, a highly desired Luna that could find another mate in a heartbeat if I let her get away. He joked that once I got to know her, I might change my mind about divorce.

same consideration.”

to speak, but I was in total disbelief and struggled once again to find the words to say.

e that I have a lot of work piling up on my desk, Boss.”

ashed a tight, force

office, ignoring the stares and whispers of all the other workers on the floor, who were still milling about in the front desk area. I noted that Baron was gone.

at I owned the company.

me.