All Chapters of MARKED BY DECEPTION : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

☆☆LILA☆☆His voice was calm, almost indifferent. “I thought you left.” I crossed my arms. “You haven’t fulfilled your part of the deal yet.” Selene looked between the two of us, probably wondering what we were talking about. Rowan didn’t respond immediately. He looked at me for a while before he said quietly “So you came back.” He said staring at me I inhaled slowly. “I need your help,” I said. Selene shifted slightly beside him, “I need to find out what really happened to my father,” I continued. “And right now… I’m not exactly eager to get married.” For a moment, something flickered across his face. I could have sworn I saw the corner of his mouth lift slightly,he was smiling. But it must have been my imagination. Because the words that came out of his mouth next were completely different. “If you stay,” he said calmly, “you don’t stay in my penthouse.” I blinked. “You stay downstairs.” What the hell? And before I could even respond, he turned and walked away d

☆☆LILA☆☆Rowan’s gaze stayed on me for a moment.Then he spoke.“How did you get in?”“Selene opened the doors for me,” I said quickly. “She had to leave for an emergency at the hospital, so she let me in to grab my things.”He didn’t respond immediately.I looked away from him in an attempt to hide my discomfort, and that was when I finally noticed it.He was only wearing a robe.A black one, loosely tied at his waist.His hair was still damp, strands falling slightly over his forehead.Oh.My brain took a second to process the obvious conclusion.He had been in the shower.Which meant he had probably been in the penthouse the entire time.How had I not noticed?Then again… I had been a little too busy snooping through his room.And annoyingly enough, I couldn’t deny one thing.He looked—No.Absolutely not.I shook my head, forcing my thoughts to stop right there.Rowan’s voice cut through my train of thought.“What exactly were you looking for?”I blinked.“Nothing.”His eyebrows l

After a while, the girls left, leaving Selene and me alone again to clean up. “I’m sorry I didn’t inform you before,” she said. “I didn’t know they were coming.” “It’s fine.” I paused for a moment, thinking it over before asking, “The pack members don’t know who I am, do they? They don’t know where I’m from?” She paused before answering. “No, they don’t.” “Why? Rowan doesn’t want them to know that their Alpha is capable of kidnapping?” “Look,” she said tiredly, like she was exhausted with this conversation. “You guys might have started out on the wrong foot, but my brother is not a bad person. Him kidnapping you was wrong, and I can’t give an excuse for him, but I’m sure he had his reasons.” “He could have gone about it the normal way any human could have.” “He could have,” she said quietly. “But we are not humans. No matter how hard we try to push down our primal instincts and try to blend in, we’re not humans… and we never will be.” Her voice sounded sad, and her eyes look

☆☆LILA☆☆The training grounds were deeper in the estate than I expected Nyx opened the door to reveal a perfectly concealed training arena. People were everywhere Werewolves Some sparred in pairs. Others stood around watching or stretching. The air smelled like sweat, earth, I stopped walking, taking it all in “Wow?” “It’s calm today,” Ivy said cheerfully. A loud thud echoed across the clearing. I looked just in time to see a very large man hit the ground. Hard. Nyx stepped forward before he could even sit up. “Again,” she said. The man groaned but got to his feet. They circled each other. I expected it to be careful. It wasn’t. He lunged first. Nyx moved like she’d been waiting for it. Within seconds he was back on the ground, staring up at the sky like he’d forgotten how gravity worked. "Again" I blinked. “I told yoy” Ivy whispered proudly. Nyx didn’t even look winded. Some of the wolves laughed. Others watched I was still trying to process what I had j

☆☆LILA☆☆I stood at the door longer than I expectedAt first, I told myself I just needed a few minutes to calm down.But the minutes passed and Rowan’s words refused to leave my head.I stared at the window, my arms folded across my chest.What exactly was I supposed to do?Walk around looking miserable so that everyone would feel better about my presence?Pretend I didn’t exist?A small scoff escaped me.“He is ridiculous.”If Rowan thought I was going to hide in the room because of his wishes, then he doesn't know me.I turned back and headed towards the training groundThe estate was quiet with almost everyone at the training grounds. The gravel path crunched softly beneath my shoes as I walked across the open yard.Tall trees lined the edges of the property, their shadows stretching across the ground in long dark shapes.I could faintly hear the sounds of sparring and shoutingTraining was still ongoing.Good.I kept walking toward the far end of the estate where the gate led to