CHAPTER 248: TRUTH TAKEN AS LIES

Killian leaned down and smiled at the witch. "And I don’t give a flying fuck about that." He turned to look at Finn before saying to him, "She is all yours. Deal with her as you want." he would have killed the bitch himself, but there was something else that he needed to deal with.

Finn nodded. With a rumbling, nightmarish growl, he shifted into his lycan form before attacking the witch. A second later, agonising screams started to echo in the prison as Killian stalked out of there.

"Why are you following me?" Killian turned and looked at the woman who had followed him out of the prison. "Don’t you want to go back?"

Tracy tilted her head to one side with a raised eyebrow. She said to him, "Of course not. There is something that I wish to talk about with Inez. I cannot leave without doing that, and I am going to do that whether you like it or not, so you can keep your objections to yourself." She added when Killian opened his mouth to say something.

Killian narrowed his eyes at her with a hint of anger brimming in them. As an alpha, he truly disliked it when people tried to fuck with him and from Tracy’s actions and words, he was certain that the woman was trying to do the very same with him.

She means well. She wasn’t lying when she said that she wants to keep Inez safe; we can trust her.

His beast spoke to him while trying to calm him down.

I know. Killian clipped back. He knew that Tracy meant well, but he just couldn’t shake off this feeling. It was weird that he felt threatened by a woman whose hair resembled a pack of cotton candy, but those owl earrings – there was something weird about them. It was as if they were very much alive and sentient. The red gems that were used as the eyes of those owls seemed to be glowing in the dark, giving him this peculiar feeling that they were looking at him.

"You better not be aiming for something you shouldn’t do," warned Killian. He knew that the witch meant well and that she was speaking the truth when she said that she was trying to help Inez, but he still felt worried. Maybe after everything that happened, his paranoia was getting the best of him, but no one could blame him.

Twice were his lands trespassed by these witches, and he didn’t like it.

"Even if I was hoping for something, then I am afraid that you wouldn’t be able to stop me, boy," Tracy remarked with a roll of her eyes. She curled her lips up in a smirk before saying, "I mean, if I wanted to harm her, do you think you – a pup – could stop me?"

Somewhere beneath his anger, he felt a ripple of disbelief. Pup? She actually called him a pup? He was nearing thirty and would turn thirty in a few years. It was simply a matter of disbelief that this woman called him a pup.

"Don’t look at me like that. For someone my age, you are indeed wet behind your ears."

"And how old are you exactly?"

"Oh, hush now. Don’t you know that you shouldn’t be asking the age of a woman? Didn’t your mother teach you this?"

Killian parted his lips but thought better and shook his head before turning his gaze away and heading to the pack hall. He needed to deal with more important things than a witch who spoke as if she were trying to solve a bunch of riddles.

Ignoring the blinding curiosity in his head, he marched down to the pack hall, where Dominic was waiting with his beta and Evelyn. The woman looked pale and terrified. Good. She didn’t get to act all unbothered after she had pushed Inez down the balcony.

"Can you tell me the meaning of this, Alpha Sokolov?" Dominic asked with a hint of annoyance and anger in his voice. "Why did you have us removed from the party and ask your enforcers to bring us here?"

"This question is something that you should be asking the woman beside you." Killian pointedly looked at Evelyn, who flinched upon hearing his words.

Dominic frowned. He turned to look at Evelyn and noticed that there was something wrong with her. His eyes narrowed at her pallid complexion, and he questioned, "What did you do?"

"I—"

Evelyn swallowed hard. She looked around, but no one stood up for her; she closed her eyes and trembled incessantly. "I didn’t—I didn’t do it, I mean, I did do it, but it was something that I wanted to do. It just happened."

"You mean to say that you pushed her off the balcony for fun?" Killian growled.

"No!" Evelyn’s eyes widened. She shook her head and hurriedly said, "I didn’t. I didn’t want to do it, but something kept telling me that I needed to do it. It was really hard to fight the voice in my head... and before I knew it, I had already pushed her off the balcony. But I promise... I swear... I had no intention to hurt her."

"Evelyn!" Dominic raised his voice at her, and the woman flinched. Her shoulders shrank as she instinctively stepped away from him. She was whimpering and muttering an apology under her breath, but Killian didn’t care about it.

He turned to look at Dominic before questioning, "What are you going to do about this, Alpha Cherith? Your woman came here and hurt a member of my pack. Should I take this as a sign that you want to start a war with my pack?"

"My apologies." Though disgruntled, Dominic decided to take a step back. With the happenings in his pack, he couldn’t start a war at the moment. He glanced at Evelyn, who had lowered her head and was not daring to speak a word, before turning his attention to Killian. "I assure you that Evelyn would be properly punished for her actions."