I Forgot I Loved You Alpha (Ellie and Nolan) novel Chapter 142

Chapter 142

My stomach twisted. “Agreed to?”

She looked up then, and I knew before she said the words that I didn’t want to hear them.

“I’ve decided to accept Kieran’s proposal,” she said quietly.

For a moment, I couldn’t move. Couldn’t think. Her words sank in like ice water down my spine. My wolf practically roared in outrage.

Kieran. That bastard, I knew he’d been plotting something. The way he circled around her, the smile on his face when he talked to her. He’d been planning this all along. Slowly breaking down her defenses until he convinced her…

But a proposal? She couldn’t.

“His-what?”

“His offer of marriage,” she said, her tone flat but her eyes trembling. “When our marriage ends, I’ll marry Kieran. Not right away, of course, but…”

I shot to my feet before I realized it, the chair scraping harshly against the floor. “Ellie, no. Absolutely not. You don’t know him. You think you do, but you don’t.”

There was a sense of urgency in my voice that I couldn’t hold back. This wasn’t just about my jealousy, though I wouldn’t deny that was present. Kieran was a snake, a liar. Whatever his true motivation was for Ellie, it couldn’t be good.

She would be in danger with him. The thought made my stomach drop and my heart race with the need to act.

I should have torn that bastard apart the first time he dared to touch her.

She flinched but didn’t look away. “He’s been kind to me, Nolan. I know that you don’t trust him, but he hasn’t given me any reason to feel that way. I know this is hard for you, but it’s a beneficial arrangement.”

I knew she was lying. I saw how uncomfortable she was with his touch, his attention at the last event at the palace.

“Beneficial arrangement?” I snapped. “You have that already, here. You have me. You have Lance, Cassian, Alaric-half the southern border would burn if you needed it to. You don’t need him.”

She shook her head slowly. “You don’t understand. The goddess’s influence is getting stronger, and so are the people drawn to it. The attack this morning—”

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