The Rejected True Heiress (Liora and Callum) novel Chapter 176

Callum’s POV

I spotted them from across the hall. Liora and Zane. He’d kissed her cheek, making her face instantly flush bright red, his arm wrapped around her waist.

Something ugly curled in my chest at the sight. It made my wolf growl possessively.

“She’s ours,” he hissed.

But I ignored him. More than that—I shoved him down as deep as I possibly could. I didn’t care if Liora was with Zane. Didn’t care if they were an item now, even if seeing their exchange now made the image of them making out the other night even more bitter.

I would not care about this. I refused.

Suddenly, I spotted another familiar face that made my pulse spike. Amber hair, a dark leather jacket. Was that the girl from the marketplace? The one who had dropped the brooch?

My eyes darted to the poster that was now sitting on the floor, discarded. It was a royal announcement from the King himself, offering a reward to anyone who found the missing brooch. It belonged to the Princess.

Bianca.

And yet… I was pretty certain I had seen that girl drop the brooch at the market. It had fallen out of her pocket. Hadn’t it?

Before I could approach her, Bianca suddenly stepped in my way. “Babe! There you are!” She laced her fingers through mine and grinned. “I was looking for you. How are you feeling? After the other night, I mean.”

I thought back to the night of the concert, when my instinct had led me directly to Liora in the crowd. The sight of her bloody, battered body cowering on the floor still stuck in my mind and made my stomach twist. I wasn’t sure how I had located her amongst the chaos, but I had. I tried not to think about the implications of that.

“I’m fine,” I said, which was technically true, if I ignored the lingering ache in my ribs from the whole ordeal. I’d scuffled briefly with one of the rogues during the chaos, and he had gotten a good hit in on my side before running off. I glanced at the pendant around Bianca’s throat, then, and nodded toward it. “So. About the brooch.”

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