Chapter 75
Chapter 75
Alessia’s POV
“I think we should put an end to this.”
Those words keep echoing in my head even after Caden left the room, leaving me naked and alone.
I just don’t get it. Everything was fine. Well, as fine as it could be. We had an agreement and then out
of the blue, Caden said he wanted us to end things. What brought that on?
I sigh, begging my mind to shut down. I’m tired of going back and forth with Caden who keeps acting
like a man-child. One minute, he’s calling me his lover and calling off my rejection, and then in the next
second, he’s pulling away and saying that we should put an end to what we’re doing.
Ahhh! He’s so insufferable.
I just wish that he’d stop ying with my head and just give it to me straight.
That’s it!
I’m going to his office right this instant to demand that he exin his behaviors to me. Why does he
keep running hot and cold? Why does he keep pulling me towards him and then pushing me away?
Whatever the reason is, it ends today.
I power walk up the stairs and towards his office. We just had dinner and I know his office is the ce
he retires to. If he isn’t in there, then I’ll try his room next.
As my footsteps inch closer to his door, I get a whiff of his scent, letting me know that he’s in there. I
pause when I get to the front of the door as another scent assaults my nostrils. Veronica’s scent.
What is she doing in there?’ Zuri growls, itching toe up to the surface and gouge Veronica’s
beautiful eyes out of her skull.
As much as I love the images she presents to me, I force her down. Her rushing in and tearing
Veronica’s head off her shoulders isn’t going to get us anywhere.
I stand in front of the door, doing what I can only refer to as eavesdropping. But can you me me?
The woman who is obsessed with my mate is in a closed room alone with him and I need to know what
they’re talking about.
“Thank you foring to me with this information,” Caden says, sounding closer than he ought to be if
he was sitting behind his desk.
The reason for thates when Veronica talks, sounding even closer than Caden did.
Turning on my heels, I race to the corner, pressing my back against the wall, keeping me just out of
sight. If they should head this way then I’ll be very screwed but I really want to know why she’s in the
room with him.
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I rx when I don’t hear their footsteps heading my way and finally get the courage to peep around the
corner and see what they’re doing.
Veronica is outside the room and Caden is leaning on the wooden frame with his hand resting on the
opened door, keeping it open.
“If you have any more information, feel free toe see me again.”
Caden is disying a rare kindness that I hardly ever see shown to a
anyone.
Why is it directed at her? I smolder with jealousy when I see him grace her with a sweet smile.
Something that is hardly even given to me.
Veronica grins widely, enough that I fear her mouth may just split from ear to ear. “I’m happy I was able
to help out. Even if it just proves to be a false rm, I’m happy I was still able to assist in the search.”
Are they talking about the search for the mastermind behind all those attacks? What information did
she provide to Caden and why does he look so grateful for it?
The questions in my head all die down as Veronica rests her hand on Caden’s muscled arm. “You must
be having such a hard time. Her hand slides down his arm until she gets to his clenched fist resting by
his side. “I’m here for you and I promise to help you in any way that I can.”
Only an idiot will mistake the note of innuendo i ways she wants to help him.
her words for something else. It’s in and clear what
Caden is watching her silently, his expression hidden from my view so I can’t really see what’s on his
mind. after hearing her statement. Is he considering it? Is he going to ept her barely veiled
proposal? Is he going to pull her into his office and-
I shake my head. My thoughts going down that road is just going to lead to me torturing myself. Of
course, he’s going to ept her proposal. She’s f u c k i n g beautiful and he did call off our
arrangement so he’s going to need toe up with another arrangement with someone else.
Someone like… Veronica. She’s willing and avable. The icing on the cake has to be that she isn’t his
fated second chance mate.
Then I’m running away from the two of them, not wanting to hear when Caden epts her proposal.
What am I going to do if he decides to seal it with a kiss?
Is she the reason Caden called off our arrangement? Did he already have ns to go to her and didn’t
want our messy rtionship standing in his way?
Running down the stairs, I head straight for my room and push the door open. Shutting it behind me, I
walk towards the bed, falling face down onto it.
Then the s o b s wreck over my body. I can’t stop them once they start. No matter how much I tell
myself that I’m being s t u p i d by crying over something that was never mine, I still can’t make the
tears stop falling.
Iy on the bed and soak the sheets with my tears while cursing Caden and Veronica to external d a m
n a t i o n.