Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore novel Chapter 155

Chapter 155

Chapter 155

MATTHEW

I looked at her for a long moment thought about dr Martinez The Desin typotese the possibility that Mia was a lever being used by someone doe the shannya evator the donor her established patterns

I thought about the frightened thing I’d seen in her exon Wye et coed of

“I won’t call the police today, I said. “But Mia, heat me when say kis if you come near Trapagan. you approach him, follow him, use anyone else to get access to him will stop seng mercful don’t care what else is happening in your life. He is off limits?

She looked at me with an expression I couldn’t fully read Something that was more than out and less than anger. You’re choosing a dead woman over me, she said query

“I’m choosing my son,” I said. “And yes, I’m choosing Bianca’s memory. Because whatever i falled to give her when she was alive, I can at least do right by what she left behind. “I moved to the door and opened it. “You need to leave now*

She lef

or for a moment after she’d gone, listening to her footsteps recede down the corridor.

sappeared from the adjacent room with the promptness of someone who’d been positioned to pear as soon as the door opened.

You let her go,” he said.

“We have no proof of anything,” I said. “And she’s not the only one responsible for what happened to Bianca.” I moved back to my desk. “i’m not entirely blameless in my wife’s death, Marcus, I’m not going to pretend otherwise by making Mia the sole villain.”

Marcus absorbed this. “And the

coercion theory?”

“She’s frightened of something,” I said, “I saw it for a second before she covered it. Whatever is pushing

her toward Theo, it’s

Just her feelings about me and our history.” I sat down. “But I can’t help her if

she won’t tell me

Marcus nodd

hod.

it actually is. And right now, my priority is the assembly

accepting this if not entirely agreeing with it.

smouth to say something further when the door opened again.

cisely at ten o’clock, which I noted because precision in timing was either a habit or a di hadn’t yet decided which this was. He was dressed more casually than I’d expected–

not the formal presentation I’d associated with high–level administrative officials, but something that suggested he’d calibrated deliberately to a pack Alpha’s office rather than arriving in the mode of someone expecting deference. He had a briefcase, compact and functional, and he extended his hand as he entered with the ease of someone who’d done this thousands of times and had reduced it to pure reflex.

“Alpha Morrison.” His grip was firm, brief, professional. “Matthew. It’s a pleasure to finally meet you properly. I apologize again for the parking lot ambush.”

“Nothing to apologize for,” I said, and meant it in the sense that I’d decided we were beginning from a clean slate and whatever I’d been told about him or suspected about him was going to be tested against what I actually observed. “This is my Beta, Marcus Cole. Marcus, this is Thorne Lockwood, Chief of Staff to the Alpha King.”

Thorne shook Marcus’s hand with the same easy professionalism. Marcus returned it with the pleasant neutrality he deployed when he was assessing someone and didn’t want them to know it.

“I’ll leave you both to it,” Marcus said, which was the agreed–upon arrangement–he would step out, but not far.

Thorne tool

someon

oss from my desk when I gestured toward it, settling into it with the comfort of gnificant portion of th

other people’s offices and had learned to be at

hom

ng me,” he said.

I said.

i’d moved it to

ealing it, which

d expected.”

as almost

What ca

“Thor

Som

gnificant day ahead.”

the tone of someone confirming information rather

s for pack administrative communications that were faster il. The waiting is worse than the thing itself, in my experience.”

larcus twenty minutes ago.

Od?” I said.

ck slightly, the posture of som “I wanted to meet you in pers Iministrative interest. When

tandard criteria. Your ap

formal approach to

been following your family’s approvals, it’s usually routine- attention specifically because of

“he

I took the position I’m in now, before most of without the careful management of emotion that ssional settings. Just a fact, laid out. 1 don’t talk y that kind of grief–a parent trying to hold things more attention than the file technically requires

beat cities in consisting the appearance of truth.

The late the ninguis

The sorry for your ist containerless of the content.

“Thank you” he clined his teenamel wanted to sayin person, whink in fantasy Theme yes yes tone for Thers since your time in Bloodoon City has been exigenter from a distance The decision to come back, to address the pack, to not let the leadership sistem ger than the healing that needed to happen. Those are the chores of some himsel

I let that st

“You’ve been monitoring more than the entry pages work” I said

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