Chapter 51
51 The Lie Beneath
Henry’s POV
No… even though the scent of blood clung to her, Aubrey still smelled like an Omega.
Callen snarled in frustration. “Ask her! Ask her where our mate is!”
“Aubrey, what happened?” I scanned the area quickly, searching for any trace of the Alpha – level werewolf! had sensed earlier.
The timid Omega girl kept her head down, silent. Aubrey answered instead.
“Alpha, that filthy beta tried to rape us. He injured me when I fought back.”
My eyes dropped to the gashes on her chest, brows furrowing. sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ (F)indNƟvᴇl.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access s of novels early and in the highest quality.
“Then a werewolf suddenly appeared,” Aubrey continued, “slammed into him, and killed him .
“Who was it?” I pressed.
“I don’t know. I didn’t recognize her,” she said calmly. “She left right after–it happened too fast to say anything.”
A lie.
I turned to the other Omega and released a pulse of crushing Alpha presence. “You tell me.”
She trembled, clearly panicked. Her gaze flicked toward Aubrey. Aubrey’s expression shifted slightly – just for a second–but I noticed. She was hiding something.
“Speak,” I growled.
My Alpha pressure surged like a wave. The girl broke into sobs.
“I don’t know! I didn’t see her face! It was a female wolf–very strong, but I couldn’t tell who-”
Her crying grated on my nerves. I sounded like a tyrant, bullying someone barely hanging on. Not like the Alpha I was supposed to be.
I forced myself to inhale, pulling my aura back.
Maybe Aubrey was hiding my mate’s identity–because if I found my true mate, she’d lose her last shot at marrying me.
The thought sent a strange flicker of pleasure through my chest.
Ignoring Callen’s enraged howls in my mind, I looked at Aubrey again. Her face was pale. Blood still soaked her chest. Without a wolf, her healing would be slow. At this rate, she’d pass out from blood loss.
I stepped forward and scooped her up.
She gasped. “What are you doing?!”
“What does it look like?” I snapped. “Taking you back. What, planning to die out here in the middle of the night with those wounds?”
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I saw the emotion flicker in her eyes and immediately added, “If it weren’t for the fact that my mom likes you, I wouldn’t bother.”
Aubrey’s POV
Of course. I should’ve known Alpha Henry wouldn’t really care. It was just because his mother liked me.
If he hadn’t shown up out of nowhere, I wouldn’t have needed to suppress my Alpha power. These injuries were nothing. But now, to maintain the illusion of being a powerless Omega, I had to let the wound heal naturally. Slowly.
Damn it.
With that thought, I gave up resisting and let him carry me away. As for the dead werewolf–Alpha Henry would handle it.
“Bring her too,” I said, nodding toward the other Omega.
He looked annoyed, but allowed the girl to follow.
What I didn’t expect was for him to take me back to Haixin Villa. What a joke. In my past life, I longed to step foot in this place, but I never even made it past the gate. Now, in just one day, I’d been here twice–and I didn’t even want to come.
Inside, the Omega girl was taken to a guest room to rest. She was just frightened, not injured.
Not like me.
I had to keep up the act in front of Alpha Henry–letting his wolf medic treat my wounds like I was just a fragile little thing.
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I saw the emotion flicker in her eyes and immediately added, “ If it weren’t for the fact that my mom liker you, I wouldn’t bother.”
Aubrey’s POV
Of course. I should’ve known Alpha Henry wouldn’t really care. It was just because his mother liked me .
If he hadn’t shown up out of nowhere, I wouldn’t have needed to suppress my Alpha power. These injuries were nothing. But now, to maintain the illusion of being a powerless Omega, I had to let the wound heal naturally. Slowly.
Damn it.
With that thought, I gave up resisting and let him carry me away. As for the dead werewolf – Alpha Henry would handle it.
“Bring her too,” I said, nodding toward the other Omega.
He looked annoyed, but allowed the girl to follow.
What I didn’t expect was for him to take me back to Haixin Villa. What a joke. In my past life , I longed to step foot in this place, but I never even made it past the gate. Now, in just one day, I’d been here twice – and I didn’t even want to come.
Inside, the Omega girl was taken to a guest room to rest. She was just frightened, not injured.
Not like me.
I had to keep up the act in front of Alpha Henry–letting his wolf medic treat my wounds like I was just a fragile little thing.
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