Fated To Three Betrayed By All Until She Rose (Leilani) by Ahvahh novel Chapter 457

Chapter 457: His plan.

Kael

If there is one thing I have come to understand in the full two decades and some years that I have walked this earth, then it is the fact that people do not just say words without thinking about it or meaning it.

People will not call you stupid if they do not think you are stupid, neither will they think you were dead if they didn’t do one of these few things:

One: if they didn’t see you die.

Two: if they didn’t try to kill you.

Three: if they didn’t plot or pay someone to kill you while being sure that their plots had worked...

And four: all of the above.

My jaws set into a straight line just as these thoughts hit me and I stalked towards Micah, deliberately waking as slowly as I could and not once taking my eyes off his eyes which for some reason, could no longer hold my stares anymore.

He was visibly shaking, visibly fretting and if it wasn’t for the excessive chaos happening in the room, then everyone would’ve heard how loudly his heart was pounding against his chest. However, I ignored all of this as I asked coolly; "Tell me, what makes you think we were dead?"

At my words, he lowered his head briefly, straightened his tie and tried to smile— but it didn’t reach his eyes. His eyes were as cold as hell.

"I... I didn’t mean it literally."

"Tell me, how did you mean it then?" I asked softly, all the while pushing closer to him until I was standing so close, I could smell the fear coming from him in tiny wisps.

He smelled of bergamot, wood and fear... and at this point, it was a lot of fear. "Kael, why are you doing this?" He asked,

His response slash question made my eyebrows raise into my hairline. I frowned slightly, let my eyes drag over his body and asked; "Doing what?"

While we talked, the shareholders continued to bark out words in and against our favor, while pressmen and women clicked wildly at their cameras, all wanting to capture this heated moment and make a headline out of it.

I saw the annoyance fleet past Micah’s eyes before he cleared his throat exaggeratedly and sighed; "I genuinely did not mean it like that, lovely cousin. I heard that you three wanted— no scratch that— that you three needed to retire for a few years. That you wanted all of your affairs to be out of public scrutiny, and what other way is there to make that happen besides making everyone believe that you are dead?"

"So in other words, you lied." Zevran hissed, causing him to immediately shake his head vigorously.

"No! No, I didn’t!" He snapped, "what would I gain from lying?"

"I don’t know... perhaps the position as new CEO!" I chirped in, causing his eyes to lower briefly before his mask of indifference slipped back in.

"You lied about our death or aliveness... if that is even the right word we should call it and even lied about us ’deciding’ to retire."

"So it was never your plan to retire?!" Someone shouted from the crowd and I immediately shook my head without checking to see who it was.

"No." I answered gravely just as the crowd fell into silence.

I guess all it takes to make them go quiet is to be an Alpha— something that Micah clearly was not.

"...I have never planned to retire from something that is my birthright. Neither have my brothers. Recently, we lost a friend in the person of Alpha Jarek Frostclaw and we had taken a step away from the hustle and bustle of the world as our way of mourning our dead. And do any of you know what happened right after that?!" I growled, causing most of the people whose faces I could see from where I stood shake their heads at me, their voices uniform as they rasped;

"No."

"We were forced out of our solitary by the news... these false news circulating around the world of our retirement. One that was started by our dearest cousin here, Micah."

More gasps rippled through the crowd, and the air grew so tense, you could literally cut through it with a knife.

My hands shot out to grab his collar before I could control myself and I found myself bunching at the clothes and pulling it towards myself until he was standing right in front of my face, stuttering and shaking in both rage and embarrassment.

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