Chapter 279 The Question
Leslie’s POV
“Do you still love Kirby?”
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It was the question everyone wanted answered. My jaw tightened, my eyes dimming as that familiar weariness rose again.
I had said countless times that I didn’t. Yet suspicion always lingered around me like a shadow that refused to fade.
Just as he thought I would stay silent, I smiled.
“If loving someone means you must love them forever, then, Alpha–your wife has passed. Are you truly never going to marry again?”
My words were just as intrusive as his, but it was the only way I could express the tangled storm inside me.
For a moment the air seemed to freeze, the sound of rain outside pressing in sharper.
Adler’s expression flickered, then he let out a gentleugh, warm and unhurried. “I understand.”
Mch’s POV
As one of Crimson Moon Pack’s best betas, I had long been trained to keep calm and alert in any setting. Yet when I saw Leslie walk out of that building side by side with Adler, unease twisted in my chest.
So it had happened–exactly what Alpha Kirby feared most.
Leslie and Adler, together.
Standing side by side, their presence unsettled me. Leslie with her dazzling pride, carrying the unmistakable authority of the Rogue Pack’s princess, and Adler with his cold, noble grace, radiating the air of a Gold Empire Alpha. Together, they looked… too natural.
I frowned, the quiet sandalwood scent of Adler’s pheromones pushing through the rain, almost drowning out the earth’s dampness.
Shane and I had been stationed at the door the whole time. How had Adler slipped inside without either of us sensing it? His movements were disturbingly precise.
I followed at a steady pace, not too close, not too far, catching fragments of their hushed
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Alpha Kirby, I thought grimly, you always worried about Frost Pack’s Eric, but you never expected Adler–this Gold Pack Alpha–to be the true danger.
I had caught enough to know Adler had asked the question everyone wondered–Leslie’s feelings for Kirby.
She imed she no longer loved him. Yet the tilt of her chin, the smile in her voice… it sounded more like deflection than truth.
I frowned deeper, doubts dripping through me like the rain outside.
And why had she asked Adler if he’d remarry?
From her lips, the words carried a touch of provocation, almost like she was testing him.
My ears strained for every detail, piecing it together.
Could it be… Leslie was interested in Adler?
The thought made my chest tighten. This could never reach Kirby’s ears.
Kirby’s POV
The castle study was dim and quiet, the only sound the asional crackle of firewood in the hearth.
I leanedzily into the leather chair, eyes fixed on a screen filled with unread emails.
The sudden shrill of my phone shattered the silence. Again and again it rang, relentless.
I nced at the screen–Leiss.
My brows knit, and I turned away, ignoring it. But the ringing persisted, stubborn as the man himself.
I mmed theptop shut, my expression darkening, shadows pressing in around me. Snatching the phone, my voice came out low and cold, like ice wing from my throat.
“Talk.”
The single word froze the air. Even I warned myself silently–Leiss had better have something important, or the moment I returned, I’d make him regret it.
“Kirby! You ditched me in Hawaii and went off traveling with Leslie instead? You bastard, putting a woman before your brothers!”
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His booming voice nearly burst from the speaker, full of his usual exaggeration. “But seriously -what’s Adler doing mixed up in all this? You, Leslie, and Adler together? I don’t get it!”
My hand froze, the motion to hang up suspended in midair. My chest clenched tight, icy fury carving deeper into my face.
“How do you know that?”
My voice was so low it was nearly a snarl. Inside me, Lance stirred violently, restless, as if he too had scented danger.
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