Chapter 102: The King’s brother...
Noah POV
"Y-You’re King Tanner’s brother?" my brows shot up with disbelief as I stared at the man who was the complete opposite of the Tanner I know.
He let out an easy laugh and nodded "I swear to the moon, I am Tanner’s brother. We have the same mother and the same father. I think I look more like my mother," he reached for the folds in his pocket and brings out a black and white picture which he raises to my eye level.
It was a picture of a slender, beautiful woman with eyes that resembled Conrad’s’. In the picture, she was sitting on a high stool, with a 4-year-old Tanner from my guess and a toddler that looked like Tanner. On the picture was inscribed a date and time the picture was taken. I looked up from the picture meeting Conrad’s gaze. This proves nothing. With the high rise of technology, especially with most packs leaning towards the human world to tap from it, anything was possible.
But I decided it would be useless to keep arguing with him and I also know this might be a way to trap me. So, I made sure I had a disbelieving look on my face. "I see," I nodded finally "It’s a pleasure to meet you although Tanner didn’t mention having a brother to me the last time we met,".
"Nah!" Conrad shook his head, a playful smile on his lips "Tanner does anything but talk about me. You see, we don’t see eye to eye on a lot of manners and he’s as stubborn as an earthen god but he doesn’t talk about me to anyone. You could safely say that I am the black sheep of the family and that’s okay. I’m used to it," he winked at me.
"Anyways," he shrugged and went back to his position easing onto the sofa as he stared at me with hardness glinting in his eyes and a smile still playing on his lips "I must admit, I’m surprised that you decided to see me this morning, especially after last night’s..." he trailed off watching me intently "saga...".
Instantly, I became alert as the words left his mouth. He was baiting me as Kurtis said he would. If I pretended and acted like I didn’t know anything about it, it would heighten his suspicion. But since we’re going with the narrative that Selene had gone to see him without my knowledge or permission, I would try something else.
I walked towards the sofa facing him, and settled myself on it, "I should be asking you that. When the guards reported to me that you came into Moon Whisper yesterday and didn’t care to inform me or call anyone to tell us of your arrival and that was why I asked them to revoke your lodgings for only 48 hours even though I was told you wanted to stay the entire week,".