<h4>Chapter 137: Chapter 137: Trapped Between Hunters</h4>


    Selene’s POV~


    I could not move.


    The filey at my feet like a crime I had been caught with. The sound of the papers falling still rang in my ears.


    Their eyes did not leave me.


    Aeron stepped forward first. He did not speak. He only pointed at the chair in the center of the hall. His gaze was enough. It told me what to do.


    My throat was dry. My legs shook. Still, I obeyed. I would not want to raise their suspicion more toward me.


    Slowly, I walked to the chair and sat down. My heart beat so hard that I thought it would break through my chest.


    The three of them moved around me. Like hunters circling prey.


    Kael stood at my left. Luca at my right. Aeron straight in front. Their bodies closed me in, leaving no escape.


    The air grew heavy. I could feel it pressing down on me. I could feel them pressing down on me.


    I did not understand their eyes. They were not cold alone, neither angry alone. There was something else. Something I could not name. Something that made my stomach twist with dread.


    It would have been better if they had been in rage and barked orders to their beta or gamma to drag me out of here, but no—they had decided to y with my emotions.


    Countless questions stormed inside my head. Did they know? Did they see me? Did they know who I was?


    No. No, they could not know. If they knew the truth, I would not be sitting in front of them.


    But still, why were their eyes so sharp? Why were they watching me like this? Why did it feel as if they were looking past my skin, deep inside me?


    I gripped the chair to steady myself. My nails dug into the wood. My whole body trembled. Yet in the middle of all this fear, another feeling rose inside me.


    It was wrong. It was wild. My heart was not only afraid. It was... beating like hell, and I was sure they could hear it too.


    I wanted to scream at them to stop looking at me like that. I wanted to demand what they wanted. But my voice stayed locked in my throat.


    Aeron’s eyes stayed steady on me. Kael’s lips curved as if he almost knew something. Luca’s stare burned the side of my face until I had to turn away.


    I hated it. I feared it.


    Three hunters. One prey.


    And I was caught.


    Aeron suddenly leaned down toward me. Maybe he thought to end my misery and break this suffocating silence.


    His face was just inches from mine. My breath caught in my chest. I wanted to move and blink, but couldn’t.


    His stormy grey eyes locked onto mine. They burned into me. My forehead grew damp with sweat. My lips parted, but no sound came.


    "Who are you?" he asked.


    His voice was deep and low. It rumbled through me like a storm shaking the earth.


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    The question mmed into my chest. My heart jumped. But a sigh escaped me. Relief washed over me for a moment. Maybe they really did not know who I was. Maybe they only caught me for stealing, not for what I truly was.


    So I decided to answer back with the lie I had already prepared in my mind. "Alpha... I am just a human girl. I was only trying to clean the room."


    Kael gave a sharpugh, low in his throat. "A human girl, cleaning, inside our hall?" He scoffed at my lie. "Do you take us for fools?"


    The words sounded weak, even to my own ears. I knew the moment they left my lips that they would not believe me. And I was right. None of them moved. None of them looked away. Instead, I saw it—the spark in their eyes. The curiosity. The interest. It grew sharper, hotter, as if my lie had only tied me tighter in their.


    My lips trembled. My chest burned. I wanted to exin more. I wanted to give them a reason, any reason, for why I was near their file. My mind spun with excuses, one after another, but none seemed strong enough to save me.


    "Speak," Aeron said, his voice low and sharp. "Do not waste our time."


    I swallowed hard. My words failed me. My tongue was dry, my mind nk.


    Aeron’s eyes searched mine. He studied me as if he could read every thought, every secret, just by watching my face. Then, without warning, he pulled back. He leaned away from me and sat down on a chair straight across from where I sat. His eyes never left me.


    Silence filled the room. My nerves cracked under it. Then, from my side, I heard the soft sound of water pouring.


    I turned my head. Luca stood there with a ss in his hand. He was rather calm and quiet, opposite of the sight I had seen. His movements smooth, almost gentle. He poured the water and slid the ss toward me.


    "Calm down," he said. His voice was softer than Aeron’s but still heavy. "Drink."


    My eyes snapped to his. My breath froze again. "Why..." I whispered, though the word barely left me. "Why give me this?"


    My chest tightened. Suspicion rushed through me. My gaze fell to the ss. What if there was something inside? What if he had mixed something? What if it was poison? Or worse, a drug to make me surrender?


    I looked at him from under myshes, trying to hide the doubt in my eyes, but he saw it anyway. Luca’s lips curved, almost like a smirk. Then, slow and steady, he lifted the ss himself and drank every drop right in front of me.


    The sound of his throat swallowing filled the silence. He set the empty ss down and filled it again. His movements were slow, deliberate, as if he wanted me to watch every second. He slid the ss back to me.


    "See," he said. His eyes glinted. "Now you can drink."


    Kael leaned in close, his voice a whisper at my ear. "If we wanted to do something, do you think we would stoop so low?"


    Heat burned in my cheeks. My heart mmed against my ribs. He had caught me doubting him. He knew I did not trust him, but I didn’t want to give them the opportunity to doubt me more.


    So, without another word, I grabbed the ss and lifted it to my lips. The cool water touched my mouth.


    Then only I realized just how parched my throat was... it was dry and aching. So, without stopping, I drank it all in one gulp. The water slid down my throat fast, cooling the fire in my chest but not the heat crawling under my skin.


    I set the ss back down, my hand shaking. Slowly, I raised my eyes to his again. Luca’s gaze was steady. My breath caught. I did not know what would happen next. I only knew one thing.


    I was already too deep in trouble, and these men were definitely toying with me.