Chapter 93

When Inez finished picking up the coral wisps that were growing along the shore, she straightened up and walked back to the lodge. She came across some lycans who continued to walk down the path without greeting her. It was clear that even though Inez was living with them, she was still an outsider in their eyes.

Of course, Inez found it a bit uncomfortable; she knew that there was nothing in her hands. She couldn t become a part of this pack unless she proved her worth to them, and Inez had no desire to do it. She had given her all to her previous pack, only to be abandoned by them in the end.

As a shifter who was burned once, she didn t dare to put her guard down again.

On her way, she met with Laxus, who was watching Selene collect the roses from the garden. When she approached the two of them, Laxus raised his head and looked at her. He nodded at her in greeting while Selene smiled at her.

She said, "Are you going back to the lodge?"

"Yes," Inez replied, and a second later she heard Selene sigh. "What?"

"You should stop blocking the pack bond," stated the woman softly. "I know it s a bit annoying for you to listen to the chatter of the pack mates, but there is no point in blocking it either. Just now, Kill called for a meeting through the pack bond. If you continue to block, then you will miss a lot of things."

Inez frowned when she heard Selene s reproachful words. She didn t block the pack bond because she was not used to the chatter, but because everyone kept talking about her and Inez, who didn t like her dirty laundry being hung outside, was a bit annoyed by the gossip that was going around her.

However, she still nodded and replied, "I understand."

Selene smiled. She knew that even though Inez agreed, she was still not going to open the pack bond. She was going to talk with Killian and have him find a new way to relay the pack news to Inez.

She turned to look at Laxus and said to him, "You can bring me back to the main lodge; I have collected enough roses."

Laxus nodded and, without saying anything, he pushed Selene s wheelchair to the main lodge. While the two of them were heading towards the main lodge, Inez wondered if she should go to her lodge and store the coral wisps first when she heard Selene say, "Are you not coming with us?"

"I am coming," Inez replied as she placed the collected coral wisps in her bag, which she was carrying with her. Fortunately, shifters didn t know the use of the coral wisps.

She walked down the cobblestone path as she followed Selene. As the three of them arrived at the main lodge, they ran into Killian, Finn and Ajax. The three men were covered with muck and water, and in Killian s case, blood.

Inez s brows furrowed, and she wondered what Killian had been doing for him to be covered in blood.

"What s wrong?" Killian walked over when he saw her furrowing her brows. He didn t know why, but seeing her in distress, he wanted nothing more than to soothe the cause of her worry. He said to her, "Did something happen?"

His beast also stopped licking his snout and looked up at Inez.

He was looking at the woman with rapt attention as if waiting to claw the person to death who made her worry.

"Nothing happened to me," Inez shook her head, looking incredulous. Why was he looking at her like she was the centre of his gravity? "Why are you covered with blood? I saw you a few minutes ago, and you were fine."

He shrugged, pulling her along with him. "This? This is nothing, just a little gift from someone who refused to bow down when he still had the time." noveldrama

"You mean you are coming after interrogating someone to death?" Inez asked, sounding a little bewildered. It wasn t that she didn t believe that Killian had the strength to make someone submit; it was just too incredible to imagine the man interrogating someone.

"What? You thought that I couldn t do it." Killian suddenly smiled while looking at her. "But I don t blame you. People have a tendency to label others. Since I am labelled as a charmer whose main life is to charm women and get laid, no one bothers to look deeper than that. You should hear others questions about how I was able to become an alpha when I am so young, without anyone passing the title to me." Sometimes it did bother him, but soon he stopped paying attention to it.

Inez understood how it felt. People looked at her, and they all saw a lying, gossipy woman who stole someone else s work without even thinking about clarifying the rumours that were circulating about her. They never once doubted the words spoken about Inez; if they had not made the assumptions, then they would have known that Inez was a rather prideful woman who would rather die than claim someone else s work as her own.

As such, she should have known better than to make assumptions about Killian. "I am sorry."

And that was the most awkward apology that he had ever heard. He turned to look at her and questioned, "For what?"

She shifted uncomfortably under his gaze. "I misjudged you when we first met."

Her apology was unexpected, and she looked genuinely upset with herself. Looking at her frown like that, Killian couldn t help but curl his lips. "Hey, don t worry about it. It happens all the time." When she didn t stop frowning, Killian changed the topic. "By the way, before I forget once again. It was unbelievably hot when you took down that alpha female. My beast really liked it."

Inez fought a smile. She turned to look at him ever so casually. "It was nothing compared to when you made the alpha man kneel." Her siren side almost purred at the memory.