#Chapter 226: Compulsion

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Candido narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

“That’s ridiculous,” I said. “That’s not a power that werewolves have.”

“Most? No,” Cillian said. “Estella is more than just my chief medical officer. She’s the reason we rarely had to waste time fighting creatures on the fringes of Lunae.”

Candido’s eyes widened, his shoulders relaxed, and the suspect left his face.

“What do you mean?” Candido asked.

I clenched my jaw. I wanted to call Cillian out on the lie, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t chance Candido telling him that Estella was dead. It was obvious that he thought Estella was still alive. Sure, he wasn’t being as nice to me as he had been before. I still needed him.

He was the only person around that I could use to make Candido jealous.

“His Majesty asked me to help you figure out your powers the way I helped Estella figure out hers… You’re a golden wolf, a solare. If the war is to end quickly and the way it needs to, you can’t afford to continue to be ig