All Chapters of The Alpha Rejected His Bride For Me: Chapter 181 - Chapter 184

(Darius POV)The door clicked shut behind Kai and I sat in the chair and looked at it for a moment and then looked at the glass on the desk and the ring of moisture it had left on the leather blotter.He had said the incident report covers what happened four times. Not three, four, and the fourth time had been in response to my asking whether he was sure, which I had not asked aloud but which he had apparently read in my face regardless. The boy had always been able to read my face, it was the thing about him that had required the most management over the years, and he was better at it now than he had been at seventeen and considerably better than he had been at twelve.I picked up the letter opener and held it.The incident report said she fell. One sentence, essentially, dressed in the admi

(Mira POV)I had been at the laundry tubs since seven.It was the kind of work that did not require thinking, the lifting and the wringing and the hanging, and I had been doing it on Wednesdays since I was sixteen and the rhythm of it was in my body independent of whatever my head was doing, which meant I could work through the morning while my head was somewhere else entirely and the laundry would still get done.My head had been somewhere else for days.I was wringing out a sheet, both hands twisted in the wet fabric and my arms aching from the weight of it, when Ada Mensah came through the gate at the back of the washing yard with her basket on her hip and her mouth already open.Ada's mouth was always already open. It was one of the consistent