Fated To Three, Betrayed By All… Until She Rose. Chapter 386: Party crasher

Jarek.

The thoughts of Leilani plagued for the rest of the day, so much so that I couldn’t refrain myself from calling one of the triplet brothers, Kael.

He picked up on the second ring, and as soon as his deep voice seeped through the phone, muttering the word; "Hello?" I imdiately knew that there was sothing he knew that I didn’t.

Hell, he sounded too chill... too relaxed, and sothing about the coolness that dripped off his words like honey unsettled .

I imdiately blurted; "Have you heard anything from Leilani?"

He took a second— one that I decided lasted too long— to respond, and when he did, he didn’t provide a straightforward answer to my question right away. Rather, he asked; "Did you hear anything about her?"

His response was another dead giveaway that he knew sothing I didn’t, and it made frown slightly.

I hissed; "No. I have been considering giving out so of her personal items back at the office, and for this reason, I have to be sure first..."

"Why would you do that?" He snapped quickly— too quickly, and even from here, I could swear that I heard the anger imdiately seep into his voice. "Isn’t that a little too early?"

"It is..." I let my voice trail off, wanting to annoy him even further and hoping that the angrier he would get, the easier it would be for to pry sothing out of him.

I was wrong.

"But soone needs to take up her position." I continued coolly, "Soone needs to beco my acting manager and acting lead engineer, and—"

"Do not give anything out!" He growled, and goddess, if I were a lesser man, then his tone would have made flinch or even tremble.

But it didn’t.

So I pretended to sigh whilst pinching the bridge of my nose as I muttered; "It is my obligation..."

"Your obligation is to give them to soone who is a close mber of her imdiate family, and in rare situations... her extended family."

At the sound of his words, I let out a sigh again. And truth be told, at this point, this unnecessary back and forth was beginning to make a whack headache brew at the back of my skull. And when I realized— or suddenly deciphered— that he would continue to pull this ’crazy’ stunt for as long as it is necessary, I snapped;

"Alpha Kael, stop beating around the bush and tell if you know where Leilani is!"

My words made him go silent, his harsh pants echoing through my phone’s receiver like so exaggerated moan from one of these X-rated sites.

It took him another mont that I again decided was too long to respond. And this ti, he said; "I do not know where she is but I may have heard from her."

"How?" My throat stung as soon as those words slipped through, packed full with jealousy so intense, I was shocked that I could feel that much.

I let out a deep breath, hoping to calm the storm now raging in my heart but failing miserably as he said; "I got a text. It was nothing much but it was enough for to know that she is fine."

The fact that he got a text while I got nothing made want to see red. My fingers curled around my phone so tight, I feared the device would shatter and my teeth gnashed together so much that it caused another sharp pain to rip through my skull.

"When?"

"So ti around two days ago or so..."

"Two days ago..." my voice trailed off again, and when he didn’t respond— because co to think of it, what else was there to respond?— I continued; "Can I see the text?"

"Why?" He sounded too guarded. Too tense. And that in itself roused my curiosity all over again.

However, I was just about to respond to that when I suddenly heard a feminine voice, not from my end but from his end. It chirped;

"Maya, do you want so mashed potatoes?!"

The voice sounded too familiar. Heavens, I could be dead and only that voice had the power to wake up. It took a mont to realize what that ant— that it ant he has been lying to the entire ti and that she was in fact with him— and when that realization settled at the back of my skull, I imdiately lost it.

I lost it because:

One, I knew for a fact that that was Leilani.

And two, because she had gone to them and not to .

My grip on my phone tightened as I took in deep breaths, but before he would say another word to , probably another lie, I imdiately ended the call and placed my phone face down on my table.

For a very long mont, I couldn’t control the way I breathed. I couldn’t control the pain that seared through my midriff and chest, tearing through every muscle and tendon. For a while, it felt as though I had lost the ability to think, to speak... to breathe, and panting through my teeth, I pressed my head into the headrest and drawled;

"She went to them and not to ."

She was supposed to be with , for ... she was ant to be my own. Not theirs. Never theirs.

And that delirious mindset was what I had until now...

Goddess, that realization hurt more than anything in the world, especially since it was sothing that I have always suspected.

I always knew that a ti would co when she would pick them over , and I, Alpha Jarek Frostclaw, would not make that decision any easy for her for as long as I am alive.

So with this thought, I swiftly rose to my feet, pushed my phone into my pocket and stepped out of my office with my car key in hand, and with only one purpose in mind;

—And that is to crash whatever party they were having at the mont.

The goddess be damned.