Chapter 73

He tilted his head to one side and remarked. "Why are you so pissed off? Let me guess you are jealous?"

"No. But I am about to get really annoyed by your assumptions?"

Chuckling, he pulled away from her. "What did my dear Nyx tell you about Lyra?"

"That..." Inez paused, not understanding whether she should speak the truth or not. However, when she noticed the knowing look in his eyes, Inez knew that there was no point in hiding the truth. The lycan could easily see through her thoughts; if she lied, then he would not think twice before peeking into her thoughts.

As annoying as it was, Inez knew that there was nothing that she could do about it.

She decided to tell him the truth anyway; it was not she who would lose anything. "She told me that you were used to ... beating your ex-mate," relayed Inez, and Killian, who heard it, laughed as if he had heard some kind of joke.

Seeing him laugh, Inez couldn t help but frown. She questioned, "Why are you laughing? Is it not the truth?" Her expression was filled with confusion as she looked at the man who was laughing as if he were amused by what she said.

"Oh, no. It is indeed true. It s as true as it could be." Though he said that, the second his emotions closed off, Inez knew that there was more to the story than he was letting on. He said to her, "You should go on with your work. Selene might not look like it, but she doesn t like tardiness."

After he finished speaking, he turned to walk out of the lodge.

Inez watched him leave; however, just as Killian was about to walk out of the lodge, she reached out and caught his wrist. The lycan paused and looked down at the small hand that was holding his own. He arched his brow and asked, "And what is the meaning of this, bubbles? No matter how kinky I am... I am not going to go down and dirty in the lodge that belonged to my sister. That will be really weird."

Hearing his words, Inez let go of his hand as if she had been whipped. She looked at the man with wariness in her eyes and said to him, "I didn t mean anything like that." Taking out the chocolate that she usually carried with her, as Inez liked to eat something sweet whenever she was feeling a bit down, she handed it to Killian and said, "You should eat something sweet when you are upset."

When Killian heard her words, he burst into laughter. This was his first time hearing someone say anything concerning after hearing him confess to hitting his mate. Usually, they looked at him as if he were a monster who had done something despicable without knowing the truth.

He expected the same reaction from Inez, which was why he turned around and left without taking a look at her expression, but he never thought that she would actually hand him a piece of chocolate.

Taking the piece of chocolate from her, he raised it in the air and said, "Cheers, bubbles."

Inez smiled at his actions before hurrying upstairs to the bedroom where Selene was.

When she pushed open the door, she saw Selene staring out of the window. She was looking at the ocean, with her eyes devoid of any emotions. Seeing her like this, Inez was startled. She couldn t help but hurry inside the room as she said to her, "Miss Selene, is something the matter? Did something happen last night?"

She thought that it was because the woman had another attack, which made her react in such a manner.

Selene turned and looked at Inez with a smile. She shook her head and replied, "No. I slept like a baby last night. I was just woolgathering and nothing else."

She then patted the side of her bed and asked Inez to come and sit down next to her. She said to her, "Did you run into Kill? I hope that he didn t give you a hard time. Though he might come out as someone who has little to no substance, the truth is that he has a lot of substance within his heart."

Inez smiled. She didn t want to break Selene s heart by telling her that her brother only had substance when it came to her; as for the rest, she couldn t be clear about it at the moment. Killian was the kind of man who hid himself too deep. And Inez had no desire to dig him out of the shell.

"He didn t make things difficult for me." though Inez would have loved to say otherwise, she didn t want to make Selene upset. She sat down and took her hand in hers before saying, "Before proceeding, can you tell me what is weighing on your mind? While it is important to physically recover, you should also heal mentally. If there is anything that is burdening you, then you need to tell me the truth."

Selene said, "It s nothing. I was just recalling something from the past, and it made me slightly upset."

Inez stared at the woman whose eyes were filled with emotions that were simply too hard to explain. She patted her on the back of her hand and said, "Do not be disheartened, Miss Selene. In time, you will be able to forget the scars of the past. The present is always full of surprises and gifts; that s why it is called a present." She tried to cheer up the young woman. noveldrama

Selene, however, was not a young child. She didn t blindly trust Inez s words, but, at the same time, she wanted to believe Inez s words. Not completely, but half of them. She hoped that the future would give her a present so good that she would forget all about the bitter memories from her past.

"Then I will start with the treatment?" said Inez as she parted her lips and began singing a soft melody.