Owned By The Possessive Alpha, Bounded To My Mate novel Chapter 137

Chapter 137

Chapter 137

Lyra POV

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The lunch was barely an hour and I mentioned my dad twice. It bothered me because it wasn’t intended to impress him. I found it disturbing because his questions on the East boundary arrangement/made me defend my opinions and explained the source of my opinions, of which my father was a major part.

Marcus had a style of questioning that left me little time to react so I ended up saying things I actually believed and that was a problem.

I was so used to telling people what to think and compartmentalized what they knew about me that I didn’t even think about it. It had become automatic, almost instinctive.

He was silent as he watched me. Most people used silence as a tool but not him, he was completely comfortable with the silence.

“The transition clauses engineers ambiguity which my father believes protect the family from commitment. I, however think it makes them unaccountable.”

I had no intention of ever saying the last part. It just came out and Marco nodded.

He stared at me.” Our families always ensure we become the useful versions of ourselves even in marriage.”

I agreed completely and frowned a bit because I had agreed without thinking about it.

I picked up my glass. Marco watched me without comment. “Do you think this arrangement can avoid that?”

“It depends on how honest the participants can be.”

“That sounds like idealistic.”

“It’s practical. A marriage not built on honesty requires constant effort to maintain and I’m not interested in that.”

I looked at him. Without any change in his voice, he said, “I know what you did.”

I felt everything changed but the restaurant still stayed the same.

Someone’s laughter echoed ahead of us as a server passed with plates.

I held his gaze. “I’m going to need more than that.”

How much did he know? How did he find out? What was he talking about? Is he trying to lay a trap? Has he spoken to Kieran?

He leaned forward slightly.” I know about the fire and the intermediary you used to purchase the compound had some links to us that isn’t public knowledge for obvious reasons. There was a request for

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an accelerant with specific and unique properties.”

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A question I asked him now would confirm my involvement and I wasn’t willing to give him that.

I finally spoke up. “Did you tell the…

“I’m telling you.”

The tension in my shoulders suddenly had nowhere to go. I had been in rooms when leverages were declared and the cost of removal communicated. Marco had revealed his cards and then told me in one swoop he wasn’t going to use it.

That didn’t make any strategic sense.

He had information that could damage me and ruin my social position but refused to used it? That meant he had something up his sleeves.

“What do you want?” I said.

“I want to know the woman I’m getting married to.”

He said it simply like it wasn’t the most complex thing I had heard in the last few months.

“I just know what your family told me and that tells me nothing about the woman that I’ll spend the rest of my life with.”

“Most people would consider the family version sufficient.”

“You are right but then again, I’m not most people.”

I looked at the table for a moment. He wasn’t asking about my innocence or guilt. He was beyond that.

Who are you? Was the question he had asked me and I couldn’t remember the last time I was asked that. I had always been a Blackwood daughter with enough social and political capital to be right match to any powerful family.

I was also the one who made a plan to eliminate a problem, who didn’t lose any sleep over what I did and who went about covering her tracks with a cold efficiency too.

I couldn’t lie to him again. He already caught the first lie.

“You should know that the truth would be an inconvenience to you than the whole arrangement.”

“I’ve considered it.”

“And?”

“You can still see me sitting down here.”

I looked at him. “Why does it matter to you?”

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