Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

Chapter 175: She is mine

Inez didn’t get a chance to look at the face of the man holding her tight. Gritting out, she slashed her claws at the man’s wrists. The intruder loosened his hold on her enough for Inez to rush toward the alarm button and press it, but just as she did, the man tackled her, sending her down on the floor.

Again, the two of them started to wrestle, but this time around, as the man’s hands locked around her neck, she lost. Inez didn’t wish to admit it, but she did. With the venom in her body, she could barely move, let alone fight or rush for the water. As all the breath in her lungs started to leave, her vision began to darken, and her body became completely paralysed.

However, as her body started to become more and more numb, a tranquillity started to sit within her. It pushed away the panic that was clawing inside of her. However, just as the darkness started to set in, the weight on her body was pushed away, and Inez felt someone yell her name.

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"I said I am fine," Killian said to Finn. He was sitting in his office and rubbing his forehead while trying his best to ease the throbbing headache. These past few days, he had stayed cooped up in his office and handled the matters related to his businesses and the pack.

Killian was able to deal with the distance that he was putting between himself and Inez by keeping himself occupied. His beast, however, didn’t seem to be doing well. He was antsy and agitated. He paced inside Killian, erupting in growls and snappy roars as he whined and pushed to the surface, trying to take control.

His beast missed Inez, and so did he. Very much so.

But they couldn’t meet her, which was why he pushed his beast back down.

"You don’t look fine." Finn, the diva of the pack, crossed his arms in front of him and looked at Killian with a hint of reproach in his eyes. Even though Finn came off as someone who was deeply in control, a gentle sort of prince, Killian knew what lay behind that perfect persona.

"I am fine," repeated Killian mechanically. It wasn’t as if he had never distanced himself from a woman. He had done it. Countless times at that. But this was the only time he was going through withdrawal. It was even worse than the time when he was trying to quit smoking.

Finn rolled his eyes. Unravelling his arms, he leaned forward and placed his hands on the table. "Have you taken a look at your face? You look like a fucking zombie. If we send you for an audition for an apocalypse movie, you will pass it with just one look."

"I will not—"

The rest of his words got stuck in his throat as the door of his office burst open and a rather troubled Laxus stepped inside. Killian sat upright. "What? What is it?"

"Don’t go postal, alright?" He said to him.

This time around, even his beast shot to alertness. Killian slowly got to his feet and questioned, "What happened to Inez? Where is she?" noveldrama

"She is fine... we got her before things went wrong," Laxus assured him. "But there was an attack. Some bastard tried to drown her by poisoning her."

"They did what?" Killian’s beast sliced out his claws. He picked up his jacket and burst out of the office without wasting any time. "Tell me what happened? Where was she attacked, and how come no one noticed it?"

"In the swimming pool of the main lodge. No one was present there at that moment—"

"How could that be possible?" Killian asked with a hint of a frown on his face. "I have never heard of the swimming pool being empty without a single soul."

"I find it weird as well, but that’s how it was — she pressed the alarm just in time for Ajax to find something was wrong and rush to save her."

"Where was he? Didn’t I tell him that he needed to stay with Inez all the time?" Killian snapped. Though Killian knew too well that it was not Ajax’s fault that such an accident happened, with his blood boiling, he was in no condition to see sense at the moment.

Fuck, he should have never listened to his grandmother. He should have kept her close to him, where she would have been safer. Moreover, he should never have agreed to stay away from her. If he had been by her side today, then nothing like this would have happened to her.

He would have put a stop to the attack before it even happened.

And why did she not call out for help in the pack bond? Why did she have to wait for the alarm to ring? What was she thinking?

No, he knew what she was thinking, but what he could not understand was what he was thinking. Why did he not declare that Inez was far from those females with whom he had shared a bed? If he had, then Edira would have respected his decisions even more. But Killian didn’t want to admit that truth to himself, let alone to others.

Though Killian told Inez that he was not using his grandmother and mother as an excuse to put a distance between the two of them, he even thought that he had meant it; only now did he realise that he was talking bullshit. He had done what he always did best. He had pulled back because he could feel himself falling for Inez deeper than he had anticipated.

"I am such an idiot." He ran his fingers through his hair and cursed.

Sharply turning around the corner, he ran into Edira and Selene, who were already waiting in the living room of the main lodge.

"Kill—"

"Don’t tell me that I need to stay away because I tried it already and see where it landed her," Killian said. His voice was quiet but laced with something very dark and haunting. "I need to see her, and that’s exactly what I am going to do. Whoever," he turned and gave a very, very angry look to Morrineth. "Wants to intervene can be my fucking bitch!"