Chapter Five: Why Would I Care If She Dies

The redhead goes still at the mention of the man she hates with every fibre of her being. 

Rex walking away after speaking, stops when he doesn’t feel the redhead beside him. Curious as to what the delay is, he turns, and frowns when he sees a weird expression on her face. 

“What is it, Nes?” He questions, walking back to the redhead. The redhead looks like she has seen a ghost. She and Nes met a few months ago in a business conference. When their eyes met across the room, he felt an immediate connection to her, and knew right away that she was the woman he has been searching for. 

Gorgeous, elegant and confident. 

The key qualities he desires in a mate, which his mate lacks in abundance. He was extremely glad, when he learns they are fated mates, and knew he would never let her go. 

At the end of the conference when he proposed to her to come home with him, her agreement had shocked the hell out of him. He never imagined that she would abandon everything she knew in her city and go back to his town, which is not as glamorous as the city. 

There is still much he doesn’t know about the redhead, and she is not talking. He is not in a hurry. They have all the time in the world to get to know each other. He would wait until the redhead is ready. 

Nes blinks away her thoughts, masking her expression. She looks to Rex with a bland look. “Nothing,” she answers, her voice slightly shaky. 

It is obvious that mentioning the Lycan King had an effect on the redhead, and Rex is curious to know about their connection, but he curbs his curiosity. 

“How did she end up in Eros’s path?” Nes reverts to the topic at hand, her change of subject not subtle at all. She doesn’t want Rex digging into her connection with Eros, but she is curious to know how the little mouse that has been her plaything for months got into the hands of the Lycan King—a cold and ruthless being, who cares for nothing but himself. 

Her inside burns with hatred and anger as she thinks about the Lycan King, but she manages to keep her dark emotions a secret from the man walking beside her. 

Trusting his fated mate’s words that all is well, and not thinking to question her weird reaction to the mention of the Lycan King’s name, Rex narrates the story of how Ara crossed path with the Lycan King. 

“He hit her with his car?” Nes’s eyes widens slightly with the need to know more. 

Rex nods. They have been closing in on the bitch when she suddenly runs into the road. When he saw the car run into her, he had hoped that would be the end of her, and saves him the trouble of having to do it himself, but he should have known the bitch would be too stubborn to die. 

Or maybe she died in the hospital? 

“Did she die?” 

Nes question pulls Rex back from his dark and spiralling thoughts. His brown eyes meets his fated mate’s light green eyes, and he shakes his head at her. 

Nes expression flickers with displeasure at the bad news, but was gone as quickly as it appeared, overshadowed by her curiosity to know what the Lycan king did. A man of his reputation, she already knows what he did. 

Eros is not only cold, but cruel. She doesn’t see him lifting a hand to help anyone, especially not the creatures he hates so much. 

“No. The King took her into his car.” 

Shocked at this unexpected behaviour from a man she believes she had figured out, Nes couldn’t keep her emotions contained. “He did what?” 

Her shocked exclamation picks at Rex curiosity. “Do you know him?” He asks the redhead, his gaze intent on her face. 

Nes knows who Rex is referring to, but she is still reluctant to reveal her connection to Eros for her personal reasons, so she plays dumb. 

“Who?” 

“Eros.” Rex stares harder at the redhead as if trying to read her mind. Sometimes he has the feeling that the redhead is keeping something from him, other times he believes he is overthinking things, but today is not one of the later. 

The glimpse of shadows in his fated mate’s eyes tells him that the woman has a terrible past, and he wishes she would trust him enough to share her past with him. He loves her greatly and would do anything to please her if she would just open up to him.

Seriously, Nes answers. “No, I don’t. I have just heard stories about him, and is stupified that he act like a good samaritan,” she explains her earlier reaction. 

Her explanation sounded plausible to Rex, who decides to let it go. “I believe she died in the hospital, but I will send some of my men to check it out.” 

“Would it be a problem?” Nes stares hard at Rex, trying to guage the tall and gorgeous man’s reaction to his mate dying. She knows there is no love lost between these two. When she came in their relationship was in shambles, so it is not as if she destroyed anything, but one thing did nag at her. 

If Rex hated his mate as he claimed, why did he keep her alive this long? Why did he keep her close to him? 

She gets him wanting to punish her for a transgression done by her parents, but keeping her close while he despised her spells an attachment that she cannot afford him to have with the bitch, even if it is a hateful attachment. 

Rex frowns at Nes question, deeming it silly and unnecessary. “Why would the bitch death matter to me? I was going to kill her myself if I caught her. The Lycan Kind doing it would be a favour to us.” 

His honest answer pleases Nes. A coy smile grazes her lips, as she looks upon Rex with a favourable look. A look that has him thinking in the direction that involves a bed, or any hard surface. 

Rex eyes darkens as he glimpses the hunger in Nes eyes. He closes the distance between them and pulls her into a hard kiss. 

In his office, Eros tries to get his business done, but the thought of the blonde in the hospital keeps getting in the way, which frustrated him to no end. Nothing has ever consumed his thoughts this much. Not even baseball, which he loves to an obsession. 

What is wrong with me?! He screams inwardly, flinging the screen pen he had in his hand. 

Finally, unable to handle his distraction, he calls it a day. He picks his suit off the back of his chair, puts it on, and walks out of his office. 

“Sir!” His young secretary flies to her feet when she sees him. 

“Cancel, all my meetings for today, Crystal,” Eros orders and leaves. 

“Where to, boss?” He driver asks, looking at him through the side mirror. 

“To Burger King,” Eros answers with his attention on his phone.