JARIS
I arched my brows at her but didn’t say a word..
“You know there’s something you’re keeping from everyone I may not really know what it is, but I can smell it around you- fishy.” She sniffed the air. “There is something fishy about you. I have always been able to tell each time I laid eyes on you. And you know if you sit on that throne-” she pointed at the empty throne ontop the stage. “-there would be chaos.”
I shrugged my shoulders with nonchalance. “I don’t know what you’re talking about, Selestia.”
“Oh, we both know you do.” She turned to the elders. “He can’t be on that throne. You can’t let it happen. I am telling you, if Jaris Dreadmoor rules us all, he’d bring destruction upon us. He is bad for this. Very bad.” Her eyes were darker as she returned them to me. “And he knows it.”
I held her gaze, not giving any expression, whatsoever.
“Selestia, come on,” Luca frowned. “You must be stressed. You should go on and get some rest.”
“Won’t you consider a word I just said?” She snapped at him, stomping her foot in anger. “I just told you Jaris Dreadmoor is bad for us. But of course, you won’t listen. You won’t listen because you are obsessed with him! You think he is our best. option! Oh, he will make us suffer!”
I grabbed my phones and lifted myself, absolutely done with her.
“I’ll be on my way now.” I nodded to the elders. “Thank you for arranging this meeting.”
And I was off, leaving Selestia seething with rage.
“What do you think that was about?” Kael asked as soon as we got outside and started heading to the car.
Nerion, who had been supervising the place, came to join us.
“Don’t know. Don’t care. It’s not news that Selestia can be crazy sometimes.”
I took out my phone to check if Lyric had responded to the text I sent during the meeting.
‘Did you have to reject the gift? What‘ is wrong with you?‘
That was what I sent to her. But she hadn’t replied. Same way she hadn’t returned my calls in the past two days.
She was starting to get on my nerves.
“Lyric is being too difficult.” I found myself opening up to Kael. “She still won’t talk to me.”
“Uh…to b
honest, I think she has the right to be,” Kael said to my surprise. “I wasn’t there to hear what you told her, but I’m damn sure you were very rude. And if you really asked her to go sleep with other men, you were really really wrong, Alpha.”
wanted to roll my eyes at him. “I didn’t ask for a scolding, Kael. If you can’t help, just stop talking.”
He shrugged and said nothing else until we reached the car. I settled into the backseat while he joined Nerion in the front seat.
Okay. Maybe there was something wrong with me.
I fucked up. And as much as I hate to admit it, I missed having Lyric around. I missed bumping into her on the passage. I missed seeing her with her red lipstick on. I missed watching her with the kids. I missed her smiles. Her daughters. And even that silly frown of hers.
“Fucking hell,” I mumbled as I pulled around my collar.
I felt hot all of a sudden. Hot and uncomfortable.
Why the hell does she have this effect on me? Why do I miss her so much?
“What do you think I can do to get her to forgive me?” The question was out before I could stop it.
Seriously, Jaris? How’re you so helpless?
Kael looked at me and smirked. Nerion glanced at me through the rearview mirror.
“I mean, I thought she’d appreciate my presents. They were quite expensive, you know? I’m trying to do some good here.” “Maybe she just needs an apology.” Nerion shrugged, cutting into the conversation.
My face crumbled as I looked at him like he’d just said something ridiculous.
“What?”
Successfully unlocked!
“You’ve been to her place, gotten her presents, given her calls. But I don’t think you’ve actually apologized to
I huffed, dragging my gaze to the window.
her.”
“He’s right, Alpha.” Kael supported. “You know you’re on the wrong here. Maybe apologizing and acknowledging what you
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did would go a long way.”
I go completely silent, because I knew they were right. The only problem was, I hated apologizing.
When I apologized to Marta a week ago, it was the first time I’d done so in years. I couldn’t even remember the last time I apologized for something before Marta. And I’d only done so because it involved our kids.
I’d doubted her, hurt her, and even distanced myself from the kids. She deserved that apology.
But aside that, I didn’t think I could apologize to anyone. But now I have to, to Lyric.
A call coming into my phone distracted me. A welcome distraction, actually. I quickly answered when I discovered it was Margaret.
“Good evening, Alpha Jaris. I just sent the pictures and details of the Siphon to you. Sorry it took this long. It was hard reaching the Executioners.”
“Good.” I simply said before ending the call.
I quickly went to my email and found the recent one from Margaret. I clicked it open and downloaded the image. When it opened, the phone almost slipped from my hand.
I shut my eyes and shook my head. I opened my eyes again, but the image in front of me did not change. For a moment, I thought I must have been imagining things.
I wasn’t.
But how was this possible?
“What the hell?” I mumbled as I zoomed into the picture.
“Boss, is there a problem?” Nerion ahead, looking at me through the mirror..
The Siphon was ‘Princess‘. The very girl I’d been longing to see again for five years. The one that had abandoned me at the hotel, taking a piece of my heart with her.
How was it possible? She was the Siphon and had helped release my brother?! How could she do this?
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