Chapter 178: Not anymore (2)
Killian felt something get lodged in his throat. He wanted to tell her that he was only doing it for her safety, but when he noticed the trace of vulnerability in her eyes, he knew that he had done some really heavy damage to her.
At once, he thought about how Inez had to live under the close scrutiny in her previous pack and all of a sudden his heart felt a bit choked up. He was one stupid bastard.
"...I am sorry." he lowered his head and apologised, realising that he might have crossed a line without knowing it.
Inez looked at him through her lashes before nodding. "You should be."
"Was he a lone shifter?" Killian asked Ajax, who gave him a nod and then said to him, "He was. I made him confess his identity. He went by the name Brendan."
"Never heard of him." Killian did a quick check of the list of names that he had in his mind, the lone hunters with whom his mother had been in talk in the past, but never used.
However, he didn’t waste his time worrying about useless things because there were more pressing matters that he needed to worry about. Like —
"The one thing that strikes me as ominous is that the man knew where to find you," said Killian as he turned his head around and looked at Inez, who was sitting on the bed upright with her back against the bed’s headboard. "It was as if he knew that you were going to the swimming pool."
Inez, however, shook her head and said, "It must be a coincidence. I made the decision to go to the swimming pool randomly. I think that the shifter snuck into the main lodge to gather information, but I was unfortunate enough to walk into the swimming pool area and fell right into his grasp."