Chapter 36


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    Charlotte


    | was sitting at a grungy bar early in the morning, drinking away as |


    waited for him.


    Love Chasia was back, and Ellis was distant and cold towards me.


    Not that he hasn’t always been, but this time was worse.


    In five years, | tried everything to make him fall for me, but he didn’t. | still wasn’t his precious Love. | attempted to be Love


    Chasia. | imitate herugh, copy her hair, and all her actions. There were times he''d see glimpses of her in me, but he snapped


    and was so mad.


    ‘You''re in love with him — For real this time,’ my inner fox said. | was born a fox, not a wolf, as imed. | used a conjurer to get


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    scent of a werewolf so no one could uncover the truth. 4


    ‘| suppose | am, | have been,’ | admitted softly to her.


    ‘What about-'' she stopped mid-sentence as | felt a presence next to me. | shivered, not the good kind of shivers that Ellis made


    me feel, but that of fear and disgust.


    “You seem somber,” My boss, Maleck, kissed my neck. | turned to


    him.


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    Maleck,” | exhaled, faking a smile


    You haven''t reported to me in three months. Are you going rogue on the mission | assigned you?” he hissed, ring daggers at


    me.


    “No, I’m not. I''d never betray you. | have been busy with work, and was going to call you before you started making perilous


    threats to me,” | said through my teeth. Maleck scowled at me and sneered.


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    Gin,” he called to the bartender. The barman mixes his drinks and ms it in front of him. Maleck pulls me closer wrapped


    around my waist as he kisses my neck.


    to him, his arms


    Love is back, and Ellis is pining for her again,” | informed him. | couldn’t conceal the hurt and bitterness in my words. He was not


    surprised to learn of this. He must have known. After all, he kept tabs on the Chasia family.


    “| know,” he admitted. He had a faraway gaze in his eyes. Was he up to something? Did it have to do with Love?


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    Was that hurt and jealousy | detect in your voice?” he spat, squeezing me tighter. | winced and shook my head firmly. Maleck


    released my face harshly.


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    Good. | ced you there to serve me. You are my spy, so don’t go catching feelings, or | will end you and your frail


    grandmother''s life,” he sneered. | side red at him. | am a fox. | was sly as my inner fox/ but unable to escape this man.


    “So, my dear foxy, any important news?” he asked. Maleck was the ba stard son of the Carter household, and he was


    determined to destroy them.


    “CC is a pain in my as s, and | haven''t been able to get the ounts you wanted. But I will soon,” | dered. Maleck looked


    disappointed. Lately, | have been such a disappointment to him. If this were six years ago, I’d start crying for disappointing him,


    but not now that |


    don’t love him like | did. | fell for Ellis, who wouldn''t.


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    D amn that old wench,” he snarled, gulping his drink. | didn’t like Christina Carter either. She had a f ucking big mouth full of


    insults for


    me.


    “| want the mage to refurbish the mate bond spell again? Ellis hates me and is doubting our bond again” | said with exhaustion. A


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