RHYS POVThe anger that filled me was tremendous. The audacity of Lily to talk to me that way because of the familiarity I had with her was wild. My anger pulsed through me and instinctively squeezed the life out of her throat. She coughed, her hand reaching up to hold her neck. I saw her life flash between her eyes. The light was going out, yet I couldn’t stop the anger. She had no right, no right whatsoever, to bring up Arabella in our conversation.“RHYS!!!”My body suddenly stilled. My wolf had never, never been held captive by the sound or the call of another. I felt myself reverting towards the new sound and person entering, mellowing down to receive orders from them. It was Emma. It took me a long moment to analyze this. Emma. Emma.Emma?How? How did she capture my soul with a single call when she wasn’t my mate? Was it possible to have two mates in a lifetime? Even Mia had never held my soul and wolf captive to make a point. She had never even held me captive before. Why was

MIA POVI watched her leave. My chest constricted with pain, spreading fat and wide until I felt it thumping against my rib cage. Oh, Emma was making a big fucking mistake. The audacity she had to summon me here and make a big fucking threat to me. I laughed, but the laughter stopped in my throat. There was nothing joyous to laugh too, and certainly not Emma. I felt as betrayed as I’d felt when I found out my friends weren’t really my friends, but somehow this betrayal sunk deep. They didn’t hold this secret that Emma now held above me, and they certainly did not threaten me fearlessly. I should have known the kind of person she was from the start, but she played her game meticulously. I would have snapped right here and now, and removed her stupid omega head from her body, but not yet. It was just not the right time. I didn’t know where she had kept the other evidence of my secrets, and I couldn’t just kill her without ensuring that the last of it was gone. Heaven knows how many she

RHYS POV I kept my spoon down beside my plate, thinking furiously about what Craig just said. That Walters guy can’t have done all these. This would be a high-profile case since it was about framing someone up for crimes, and that someone happened to be Lily. Everyone suddenly seemed involved and invested in the case. Emma was convinced that Lily was innocent while Mia was just being plain irrational. I don’t even know where she stood in all these. It was like she was here and then she wasn’t. Mia’s voice came on again, low and high and taunting and just plain disturbing. “Is it that you don’t believe your own Beta’s words?” she asked. I sighed before answering. “Mia, it’s not like I don’t believe Craig, but I just know that Walters won’t have done this.” “Why is that? Because he’s a good person?” “Far from that, Mia. He’s a good person and I trust him I trust that he won’t frame someone just like that. What does he stand to gain from all these? Some contraband? That’s unlike Walt

MIA POV I expected him to thank me. That was the least anyone would have done, much less my lover. Well, he wasn’t exactly my lover because Rhys had no atom of love for me, If I asked him to thank or appreciate me for the good will I was doing, he won’t so much as bat an eye, which was exactly what he was doing right now. He won’t even offer a hug, or a kiss. Oh how I wish to be kissed! It’s been long, way too long since he kissed me last; since anyone kissed me last. Not even a hug, or a word of compliment. Rhys simply stared at me like I was missing something, and our eyes held for a short while. I would have called it a moment of love, or reckoning, if his phone hadn’t chimed with a notification, breaking the spell. Rhys jumped back, mildly surprised. Even I was a little surprised and upset. Perhaps if the phone hadn’t rung and broken our spell, he might have kissed me. Or not. Rhys picked up his phone, looked at the screen and dropped it back. He didn’t even open the message

ARABELLA POVAs I stopped my car in front of the Green Place, I contemplated my choices. I didn’t really want to do this. Matter of fact, my presence here was to let Rhys know that we were done ad over, and nothing can really bring us together anymore. He was still the same shitty man that I’d always known, and I don’t know what I was expecting from him this time around but I’m really disappointed. He is just someone that I don’t want to continue this with again.Plus, Mia was becoming increasingly unpredictable. I don’t want her to suddenly spring up on us one day and catch us in the middle of something. She was crazy, and she’d shown done that several times before that she was crazy and would protect her man at all cost. I’m not sure I’d like to experience the other part of her,—the protective, get away from my man part, but isn't yet time.I got down from my car and walked into the place. This was our favorite meeting spot. Other than the fact that they had great food, Rhys liked i