Owned By The Possessive Alpha, Bounded To My Mate novel Chapter 142

Chapter 142

Dante POV

I already had an impression of her before meeting her.

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It was a habit of mine to form opinions of people I’d never met from the information I found about them.

Alyssa Stone was a well kept secret of Kieran’s and I kept wondering what happened that made him marry Denise rather than her.

She arrived at nine exactly. She entered the office and I noticed her scanning the office before she faced me. Her jaw was clenched with a grim resolution that told me all I needed to know.

She stared at me the way a person did at something they already made a conclusion about a subject.

For a moment, neither of us spoke. I wanted to use the silence but she stared at me without talking with told me she didn’t mind whatever impression I had of her.

She finally spoke and without preamble. “I’m being watched and not by you.”

I looked at her. “You investigated me.”

Her voice was neutral. “Of course.”

She told me about the calls.

The calls had started three weeks ago. The caller said nothing, just breathing on the line. The intervals between the calls felt deliberate. The caller knew her location despite her precautions.

“What precautions did you take?”

“Nobody knows I’m here. I came in under a different name.”

“And still.”

“And still.”

“Did you make the auction reservation under your name?”

The face she made felt like I had insulted her. “No I didn’t.”

“Did anyone approach you or Eli before the viewing room.”

She looked up sharply. “You know about Eli?”

“You’re here alone. You mentioned your son. It’s not rocket science.”

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the auction house. She had answered it and the screen had shown the lobby of the building she was

rrently inside

She described it without adjusting her tone for impact. “I was in a private room with my son.”

I sat upright as my mind ran processed what she told me.

Someone had followed a woman and her child into a private viewing room of a secured building before calling her.

This was a demonstration of their reach. I asked some questions: How long after the call did it take her to leave? Did she identify the person? Had she see anyone in the elevator?

She didn’t see anyone and because she moved quickly she had no way of knowing if the elevator feed had been showing a real-time location or footage from earlier.

“You can ask me if the leak was my fault without all the bullshit?”

“Did you?”

“No.”

“I believe you.”

She looked slightly surprised. “Why?”

“For starters, you investigated me before coming. Secondly you would have try buttering me to gain access to my resources if you had fabricated all these.”

She looked at me for a moment.

“I guess that’s fair,” she said.

I told her I could offer a trusted operative who operated independently of Blackwood’s visible

infrastructure to be her shadow for the duration of her time in the city and it will be strictly off the books.

“Why?” She was asking why I would.

“Someone followed your child into a building.”

She looked at me. “That’s what I came for.”

She stood which signaled the end of the meeting having acquiring the deal she sought.

“What are you to Kieran?”

She stopped. There was no look of surprised on her face. She had already anticipated the question.

The silence lasted long enough to be deliberate. “Something old. He has something new now.”

I had expected her to mention something like a former relationship she wanted to minimize, a

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complicated history or a position she still coveted.

Instead she sounded definite and decisive about her the current state of relationship with him.

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There was no resentment or hostility towards Denise in her voice. She had accepted the fact because the alternative is fighting reality.

I didn’t know what to do with that. She started toward the door before stopping. “Don’t use me against her

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