This wasn’t going well. What did she have with this male that would make me disappointed?
‘I could be, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to humiliate or put you down in front of the crowd. I want to know what I was about to face.’
She didn’t answer back, and her silence was already pissing me off.
I rolled off my Alpha aura, and I saw everyone flinch in their seat until the male I was targeting dropped his gaze away from my mate.
‘I’m waiting.’
‘Benedict is the nephew of Elliot. When Elliot came to see me, he’d sometimes bring him along.
‘Did you have any relationship with this male?’
‘No. At least nothing sexual.’
My hand resting on my thigh coiled into a fist as I opened my mouth to answer the question thrown at me by one of the Elders. I was trying my best not to be sarcastic with them because I was already pissed off and just wanted to take Nadia away from here.
‘So you are friends with him.’
‘Not really. Well, I thought we were until he made a proposal when I turned eighteen. He was hoping we would turn out to be mates.’
‘So he fucking wanted you.’
‘He said if we were mates, then his uncle couldn’t take me anymore.’
‘Were you hoping you were mates?’
‘No. But when we didn’t turn out to be mates, he asked me to sleep with him and pretend we were in a relationship so his uncle would back down.’
‘Did you?’
‘Are you listening to me? I told you we were not in a sexual relationship, and you were my first. Did you forget that?’.
I let out a sigh as I nodded my head in response to another question thrown at me by the mayor of the western territory.
This was fucking harder to do. I could always listen and mindlink at the same time, but my emotions were all over the place, and I couldn’t concentrate anymore. And Hunter growling in my head wasn’t helping at all.
I glanced at Nadia, and I saw her eyes were flecked with white, but she wasn’t sending any messages to me.
Fuck!She must be talking with him.
Was this jealousy? Because I was fucking ready to rip Benedict’s head off.
‘Turn off your mindlink and stop talking with him.’
‘Can you let me handle this?’
‘Are you defying me?’
‘What are you going to do? Tie me up and lock me up in a room?’
‘Fuck, Nadia. Just this once, don’t make me lose my control.’
‘That’s your problem then, not mine. I’m not doing anything wrong.’
“Enough,” I called out, and almost everyone in the room jolted from their seats. “Let’s call it a day. Your Luna and I needed to be somewhere.”
“But Alpha, we were not even halfway.” Elder Maurius rose to his feet, a worried look flashing on his face.
