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“How do you know all these?” I demanded.
“I was foolish enough to love you. I infiltrated their circle and risked my life just to help you but you don’t need me anymore. I am sure your mate can act as your informant in the future.”
“Thank you.” I owed her that much. “Now get out of my office.”
I tried to get back to work after that but I could not. Clover had taken to crying outside of my office. She was far enough for me not to bother about but my skin still pricked from having her in the same building as me.
An hour later and she was still crying. Exasperation made me slam my system shut but just as I stood to throw her out of the building, I felt a calmness only the presence of my mate could bring. And Clover finally stopped crying.
When my mate walked in, she smelt strongly of Jabari. I understood they’d been in the car together for long and they must have hugged. My wolf was still not settled and the scent of another man on her unsettled him more. I tried to tell the mutt that it was her Beta but he wasn’t listening.
I made a joke of it to lighten the mood but she looked at me she looked at me with disgust in her eyes. Disgust and betrayal.
If I could smell Jabari on her, she could certainly smell Clover on me.
“Have you seen Clover recently?” Her tone held accusation, her eyes held fire and her fingertips were literally on fire.
He stepped forward and took my hands in his. I looked down at them to see sparks of fire that made me snatch them back.
Magic was something I struggled with. There were no mentors, no guides, nothing. I had to work my way through it. I’d spent the last few days getting used to the feeling of something more than b***d coursing through my veins and noting triggers that made me lose control of that feeling.
“Are you trying to burn yourself?” I exclaimed. My magic wouldn’t hurt me but it could hurt him.
“I’m not trying to hurt myself. I’m trying to get to you.” He took my hands again but I snatched them back.
“What did Clover say?” I asked, taking a seat.
“She has an idea of Skylar’s whereabouts. She is likely at B***d River pack.” He sank into his set, moving the things in his desk to the side. “She wouldn’t give me the full details because ” He broke off and I got the feeling he was hiding things from me.
“She could be in her mum’s pack but the chances of that are slim.” Skylar was too smart to be in such an obvious place. “If she’s going to be anywhere, it’d be the last place anyone can think of.” And what was the last place anyone would ever think of searching for her? It could be close or she could do something as daring as lurking around Redville.
“We have trackers on the way to the three B***d River packs. It’s a lead we must look into.”
‘Don’t be suspicious, Aysel. There’s no need to be suspicious.’ I chanted in my head. He didn’t want Clover. She was the one forcing herself on him.
‘But he has the power to make her stop,’ a sly voice intruded on my thoughts. ‘It’s not like with you and Lucien. You could not shake Lucien off but he can send her away.’
“Is that all she said? It doesn’t explain why you reek of her,” I said, my tone bland but he raised his brows. He looked at me as if he heard the words I didn’t say.
“She mentioned some elders who are diehard fans of the former Alpha. They are plotting something. I’ve asked Jabari to look into that. We’ve also launched a search for Strauss and his mate.”
“She didn’t have anything tangible to say then.” These were things that were easily known. I’d expected her to have valuable information.
“Skylar bought Andrew over. Andrew has been one of my loyal followers for decades. I want to know what she could have offered him to get him to betray me,” he said.
“Andrew the driver?” I asked and he nodded in response. “He said he’d been asked to take me to the airport to greet you as a surprise.”
“We can deduce that that was a lie. Skylar bought him over. He was to kidnap you but she changed her mind and decided to do it herself.” Somehow, that just didn’t sound like what Skylar would do.
Skylar’s tactic was to bully people into doing what she wanted. Her bargain was to do her bidding or get hurt. She was always confident on her hold over a person; enough that when she ordered them to do something, she expected total compliance.
She’d asked me to poison Valens. Then, he’d been nothing more than a scary, imposing figure to me. He certainly had more power than Skylar but when she asked me to do something so daring, she’d had the upper hand. She’d been the more imposing figure to me then. She knew I dared not disobey her so she didn’t have another person also try to poison Valens or even poison him herself. Because she didn’t work that way.
“Clover told you all this?” I asked Valens and he nodded. “And you trust her to be telling the truth?” I watched him closely.
He’d once told me he didn’t trust me and that the only people he trusted were Jabari and Clover. Did he still trust Clover that much?
He remained silent for a long time, refusing to give an answer.
“You told me once that she’s been through hell for you. She has had decades to prove her loyalty to you. Tell me, Valens, do you still trust her so much that you’d believe everything that comes out of her mouth?”
He leaned back into his seat, his hands going to ruffle his hair. Then he pursed his lips before speaking. “Yes, I have known Clover for a long time. She’s had decades to prove her loyalty. I have never seen what jealousy can do to her but I trust her not to lie to me.”
“What if I said she’s lying? Would you believe me or would that just be me speaking out of jealousy?” I asked.
“I ” he paused. “Why do you think she is lying?” He asked.
“Because I know Skylar and I know she would not give someone a job and then do it herself at the end of the day. I’ve known Skylar since we were kids and I’ve been her target all my life so believe me when I say I know how evil she can be and how smart she is.”
“You don’t think there’s a possibility she did it? Who else would want to kidnap you if not herself and her family?” He mused.
“Clover,” I answered his rhetoric question. He looked at me for a while. He blinked and then I laughed. “You don’t believe me.”
“She was not on Redville soil when that happened,” he reminded me.
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