Aria’s POV
I kept my expression neutral. “I am nothing like Patrick,” I said.
Tyler studied for a long mont,then he nodded slowly. “Yeah...you really don’t seem like him. I think I can trust you. It’s not like I have a choice.”
I was glad he knew that. There was nothing to worry about. I already severed ties with my family. I am only playing a ga with them at the mont. One that would end very soon.
“So what do I do now?” he asked, leaning forward, eager...like a wolf waiting for orders from an Alpha he’s decided to trust.
“Wait for my call,” I said, rising to my feet. “I’ll contact you when it’s ti.”
I gestured toward Williams and Jonathan who were by the door. “Until then, stay with them.”
Tyler’s gaze moved to Williams first.
Williams gave him a lazy, wolfish grin, the kind that promised trouble. Tyler grimaced.
Then he looked at Jonathan.
His shoulders eased. Jonathan looked kind and comfortable. That should assure him.
Once arrangents were settled, Tyler and his wife left with Jonathan and Williams. Chloe and Alia, who’d stayed the night at my place, began preparing to go too.
But Chloe...She kept checking her watch.
Her scent carried nerves of restlessness.
“Are you in a hurry?” I asked just as she reached the door.
She froze, bit her lip and avoided my eyes.
“Well, I just wanted to check on Logan on my way ho.”
I smiled and simply nodded.
“Where’s he staying now?” I asked casually.
“Not far from here actually,” She pointed toward a nearby high-rise, then covered her face like she regretted existing. “It is over there.”
I exhaled slowly. He was staying closeby. There is clearly one reason why.
“I don’t know why he’s so fixated on ,” I said, eting her eyes. My voice stayed calm, but inside my wolf shifted, uneasy. “He’s a stranger to , honestly.”
And after Nathan... I don’t let strange males circle my territory.
Chloe nodded. “I’ve told him that. I’ll remind him again.”
“Please do,” I said.
She rushed off. I could already tell what was going on. I have noticed it. Chloe likes Logan but at the mont, it is an unrequited love. I don’t think the feeling is mutual, at least not yet.
A few minutes later, my phone rang.
It was Chloe.
Her voice was filled with panic.
“Aria, has he co to see you?!”
I frowned. “No. What’s wrong? Is he missing?”
“Yes! He checked out. His room is empty. His phone is off. I don’t know where he is!”
My wolf went still. Missing wolves rarely an sothing simple. Could he have gotten in danger lurking around ?
“Send your location,” I said, already moving. “I’m coming.”
Chloe and I t outside the hotel.
“Any leads?” I asked, opening the car door. She shook her head.
“Get in.”
She slid into the seat, sweating, her breath uneven. “He’s such an emotionally unstable idiot, who knows where he ran off to!”
I rarely saw Chloe this shaken. That scared more than Logan disappearing.
“Think,” I said, my voice steady. “The last ti you saw him, did you say anything that might’ve triggered him?”
“Triggered? I only said—”
She stopped, her face went tight.
“Aria... do you think he went to Nathan?”
My hand froze on the steering wheel.
“Nathan?” My wolf bristled at the na. “What does Logan have to do with him?” I asked.
Chloe looked embarrassed. “I told him he doesn’t know anything about your past. If he was so desperate to find out everything about you, then Nathan was the man to ask.”
Her brows furrowed, “I only said that out of jealousy and maybe anger because he talks about you all the ti”.
“So he went digging,” I murmured. “To find out more about my past from Nathan.”
She nodded. “He’s new here in Asterfell. Where else would he go? He was here yesterday...now he is suddenly gone. The receptionist said he left a couple of hours ago.”
She tried calling him again, but his line was unavailable.
“Maybe we should go to Nathan,” she said softly now.
I lowered my gaze.
My wolf paced inside , restless.
I didn’t like the idea of going to Nathan, but if Logan walked into Nathan’s world blindly...
He wouldn’t survive the politics.
“...Okay,” I said at last.
Nathan’s POV
In my executive office, the air already felt too tight. Not because of the glass walls nor the city stretching below.
But because of him.
My wolf stirred the mont Logan walked in.
I leaned back in my chair, my fingers steepled, my eyes locked on him. He was sitting across from like he had the right to breathe the sa air.
“You want to know about Aria and ?” I asked. My voice ca out low, cold and controlled.
“Yes,” Logan said calmly. “I want to know how you treated her during those years. And what she saw in you that made her marry you in the first place.”
My jaw tightened.
I studied him in silence. His posture was refined. His heartbeat was steady. There was no sign of fear in that body or that pair of eyes staring at . He had no idea how close he was to being ripped apart.
Since the divorce, males had been circling Aria like vultures.
And I couldn’t even step within ten ters of her without her guards stiffening.
My eyes stayed flat and empty. But my wolf’s growl rumbled low in my chest.
Mine. We might be divorced, our bonds might be severed, but I still want to dare to hope that she was still mine.
After a long silence, I sneered.
“What right do you have to ask that?”
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