Chapter 22
After hanging up the call with his mate,
Sean dropped to one knee in front of me[]
His voice was shaking with both fear and we []
“Miss, please forgive my earlier rudenesst“||
Grey stood beside me, completely stimned []
She hadn’t the faintest clue what was going on ||
Sean was practically pleading
If you can protect the little pup in my mate’s verpands, E’ll do anythingi just say the word! ||
He’d already lost three children.||
The first two were “accidents.“]
The third had made it all the
Chad made it all the way to delivery-[
But when theye
y cut his mate open, the baby was strangled by the umbilical cord.
Horn blue and gasping, it died within two hours
This fourth child]
He would do anything to keep it alive.
I gave him a cool look and motioned for him to rise.[
1 can help. but my protection sigils don’t come cheap.-]]
“Whatever the price. I’ll pay if he said instantly.
“Tufty thousand moun silver per sigil. One month of protection each.”
Iuled my head. “How many do you want?“]
“Ten I transfer it now.”
sumed toward Grey, who hadn’t recovered.]]
Humped her with ing elbow.
“Hey, sis. Collect the money
Grry, in a daze, took out her communicator and accepted the transfer.]]
deponit notification popped up!]
the stared at the line of zeros, still feeling like the w
was dreaming[]
nutes ago, these people were about to drag her away like thugs||
Now they stood as respectful as salaried matt:||
sigilo?” tean asked, ruilding
fil lands together eagerl
“There’s one more thing. That five million Dante owes you
Sean’s expression immediately turned grim ||
He thought I was about to ask him to write off the date:
Tm just a hard enforcer,” he said himerly
If I don’t bring the money back, my Alpha will have my mate collect my remains.
I patted him reassuringly on the shoulder.
“Relax. I’m not asking you to forgive the debt ||
What I mean is–whoever owes you money should be the one to pay it.-“]
Sean Minked!
“But Dante’s vanished–like he’s cloaked in moon fog
We haven’t been able to track him–]
Tgave I gave him a lazy smile.]
“Yulin Street. Mosintailide Road. Not many houses there.]
Take a good look around.~||
Sean looked started–then serious
He didn’t press further and immediately noted it down
“Thank you!”
“No nerd.” I replied sweety ||
Tive thousand. Transfer IL-
Grey’s communicator p
pinged again.]]
000 moon silver.j
Grey–1
to her side while Sean and his Omega underlings bowed respectfully to my retreating figure
Then piled into their armored vehicle and drove off
Grey was still staring, jew slack.]
Suddenly, the seemed to come to her senses.
She grabbed my an
i my arm and dragged me to a secluded corner
Once there, the spun aro
around and glared
Tell me the truth |
Ind you eavesdrop on that guy’s
(a personal business? ||
1 opened my mouth, sighed, and was just about to explain.
“Artually, tis.
You said protection tigils‘ and ‘evil will bring run to descendanty“—||
These are all add tribal superstitions ||
I graduated from the
actical Academy’s upper division |
it not going to fall for your hocus porus. (
Gery frowned, then her voke turned serious.||
“I don’t care how you got that info ||
But listen to me before Sean realizes the truth, you need to hide somewhere safe[]
Better yet you should leave the Royal Park altogether.||
I was quiet for a few seconib.||
Gry would rather believe 1 led]
than accept that I could sense lifelines and moon auras-
that I’d truly awakened as a Mooncaster:||
Trubbed my temple helplessly and made up a half–truth she could believe.
“Don’t worry. He won’t find out.
A while back, his mate visited the Moon Temple on the Northern Ridge
thappened to be there too]
She mentioned a few things–I overheard.]
Per also seen their family portraits, so I knew she had a history of miscarriages
“As for the pregnancy “[]
I shrurred
“I ran into her outside the medical center. Her temperature and aut had shifted]
So I took a guess.
Didn’t think I’d be right.”
Grey finally exhaled, relieved
That explanation?
She bought it
She clutched her chest like her heart was still racing.
“You’re way too bold,
You got lucky this time
“Yeah.” I said vaguely, changing the subject:||
“Anyway, they won’t be bothering you again anytime soon ||
you need to break the bond with Dante.
Before for drugs you down with him again.
