"Well, we will hunt down the person who posted that video very soon," said Inez as she corrected him. She paused before saying, "Promise me that you will never see the video. Don’t even think of watching it, not even once." Maybe it was stupid, but she didn’t want him to see her condition back then. Cornered like a little animal who had nowhere to run. Helpless and terrified.
She didn’t want him to think that she was a fool to keep trusting and hoping for Dominic to change for the better and trust her.
Killian understood why she was requesting him not to look at the video, and he nodded at her. He cupped her cheek and said to her, "I will never look down on you, Inez."
She was not the kind of woman upon whom he could look down.
A part of Killian wanted to watch the video; he wanted to see what kind of torment that Dominic had made Inez go through, such that he could recreate it when he got his hands on Dominic. He wanted to see what she had gone through, but he couldn’t refuse her.
He couldn’t even bring himself to deny it, not when she was looking at him with those eyes, which were filled with nothing but pain. "I promise I will not watch it, and I will bar anyone from seeing it either."
She swallowed hard. "Thank you." Inez knew that since the man had promised it, he would never break her trust. The man smiled at her as he reached out and embraced her. Inez didn’t know what to do with such an intimate action; she was fine with sleeping with Killian, but she was a bit uncomfortable with such caring actions.
However, with the man engulfing her, her siren calmed down as Killian’s warmth and scent covered them from head to toe.
Killian pulled back as he kissed her on the top of her head. He said to her, "Come on. I will walk you to the lodge."
"Do you want Morrineth to chase me with a stake?"
"No, to remind her that she needs to start accepting the changes." He ran his fingers over his mark on her neck. It should have scared him that he had lost control like that. Never before had he ever marked a woman, but there was no such thing. He didn’t feel scared or terrified. Instead, he was filled with self-satisfaction. The kind of satisfaction that he had never felt before.
He looked down at those beautiful green eyes that were always filled with a sense of wariness. "And so do you."
"You can stop smiling like that now, Miss Selene," said Inez as she helped the woman to the balcony. Selene had been clamouring that she needed to sit on the balcony and see the ocean to feel better, as she felt cooped up.
Selene’s eyes were glowing. She said to Inez, "Well, it’s not my fault that I am looking at my sister-in-law."
"I am not your sister-in-law. It’s nothing like that," Inez said to the woman, who only smiled at her.
"My brother wouldn’t have marked you if he didn’t have such intentions."
Inez frowned. "He should have done it with others, at least with his mate?" Though she had tried not to think too much about the mark on her neck, she just couldn’t help it when she remembered how Morrineth had looked at her. It was as if she had stolen something that was supposed to be Lyra’s.
Upon hearing her question, Selene’s eyes softened, and she shook her head. "No. Believe me when I say that you are the one and the only woman my brother has marked. He is not the kind of man who would mark just about anyone. He has never done it. Never before."
Her eyes fell on the mark on Inez’s neck, and she smiled when she saw Inez’s look of sheer worry. "However, you don’t need to think too much. Since Kill has not come after you regarding the little prank that you did, I believe that he will most likely respect your opinions."
When Inez heard the response of the woman, her face turned a bit pale. Even though Killian had not confronted her regarding the little prank that she had pulled, Inez wondered if she was really safe from his retaliation.
What if these actions of his were just lies?
Her heart twisted into knots with just the mere thought of it.
Someone knocked on the door, and when the two women turned around, they saw Nyx. She was wearing a polite smile on her lips and said to them as she walked inside, "I hope I didn’t interrupt the two of you."
Selene shook her head while Inez replied, "No, you didn’t. We are already done with the session."
"Oh," Nyx spoke with slight disappointment. "I really wish to see you working. Healers are always so mysterious that I am really curious about them."
"You know that healers never show their skills to anyone, even to their patients, Nyx," Selene intervened, as she was worried that the woman would say something that she shouldn’t. She then said to Nyx, "Is there a reason why you came to see me?"
Nyx rolled her eyes before saying to Selene, "Do I always come to see you when I have something to do?" She then turned to look at Inez and handed her the little pastel pink envelope that she was holding between her fingers. "This is the official invitation for the birthday party of my mother. Even though you are the pack member of this pack, I am giving it to you just in case someone tries to make trouble for you."
Inez looked at the invitation. While she was quite touched by Nyx’s actions of looking out for her, she didn’t want to accept it. With how much Morrineth hated her, she would definitely not accept Inez’s presence at her party.