Chapter 56

The way Callahan said those words made me shudder. Had he said that only because he was angry, or

had he really meant.

it?

Did he truly care for me, or was simply trying to threaten Sid into giving him more information?

I had no idea, but I felt certain that I had heard his voice crack and his eyes had shone with worry upon

seeing me plastered on the wall. I had definitely not imagined the relief that had escaped his body

when I snuggled into his embrace.

But then why had he become so cold to me all of a sudden?

“P-please. King. I…I will do as you say,” Sid was begging to Callahan, but Callahan was the least

bothered.

He only came near me and looked me in the eye.

“I want you to trust me on this, okay?”

I blinked in confusion. “On what?”

But before I could ask him further, he gently pulled me up from the couch and brought me near Sid. I

recoiled when Sid’s hand fell on my feet, or more like Callahan grabbed Sid’s collar and dragged him

towards me.

“She is the one you have to apologize to,” Callahan muttered, and Sid looked up at me with pleading

eyes.

“Please Zenovia, we lived together. You know how much I cared for you.”

But Callahan’s confidence was infectious. He stood beside me firmly and I felt like he was radiating his

confidence and charisma, some of which seeped into my body.

It was as if I suddenly found my voice that was shaken.

“Is that why you sold me? Telling father that I was the one forcing myself on you?”

Sid’s eyes went wide, but he was not the only one who had this reaction. Callahan was staring at me in

disbelief.

Meanwhile, Sid only managed to croak, “I told you Mom wanted you out of the way. I could not say no

to her. She wanted to sell you to the highest bidder at another auction, but I took Lycan King’s name

before she could send you to a place I could not rescue you from.”

“Rescue me from?” I asked, and Sid took a breath of relief. glad that Callahan had not twisted his spine

yet.

Sid tried getting up on his feet, but Callahan merely pushed him back, making him fall on his knees.

He did not try getting up, but stayed on the ground while trying to beg for his life.

“Yes, from the Lycan King. I have to show the rogue King that I brought you.”

Callahan clenched his fists. “So you wanted to ‘rescue’ her from me and throw her at this self-

proclaimed rogue king?”

Sid shook his head wildly.

“N-no. I was going to inform him that I met her, but she is not strong or fit enough to be of any use to

him and make him drop her topic.”

His gaze then flicked towards me. “But I wanted to speak to you first and clear our past confusion.”

A sliver of doubt entered my

mind

“And how were you so s sure that he would believe you?” I asked pointedly, folding my hands on my

chest.

“He is not strong enough to attack the mansion and take you all by himself. So, his best bet was me,

someone who has lived with you for a long time. I would make him believe me.”

Sid gulped and I could see the cogs of his brain whirring as he came up with one crazy explanation

after another.

“So, you wanted to save your sister and put the King at risk, I see, Callahan added, and Sid’s face

drained of all its color.

Before I could speak, Callahan snarled, “Is that what you were trying to do with the injection?”

Callahan took the injection in his hand and studied it, the tip of the needle gleaming in the dim light.

“Ile wanted to make me compliant to his wishes,” I replied instead of Sid, who hastily added,

“..I told you I was going to take you to the place I was supposed to deliver you to and then bring you

back here.”

“Oh really? By trying to force yourself upon her?” Callahan asked, and he pointed the injection at Sid’s

face.

“P-please King, I was not thinking straight. I thought if I marked her, I would have the first claim to her,

not the fogue King But I really wanted to save Zenovia.”

“She is your sister, for fuck’s sake. How can you even think of marking her?”

Callahan growled and his voice rumbled with a force that made the windows tremble, but I noticed how

Sid did not say a word yet again to that line.

Was he really out of his mind? I knew he was a Casanova and slept with almost every girl that would

ever allow him, so I was not sure what could be the reason for his fascination with me.

“What is in this injection?” Callahan asked, and Sid put his hands in front of his chest in an effort to

shield himself from the Lycan King.

His fearful expressions made Callahan smirk,

“Oh, I am not going to hurt you for your error. But I like to play fair and it is only fair that you lie here on

the floor like a dirty rag, passed out and with the medicine in your stream as I take her back home.

Have fun explaining to your rogue King how a wolfless girl escaped your clutches.”

“N-no, my King That..that medicine is dangerous. Please don’t”

Callahan smirked, “Dangerous? How? I thought it made you compliant and dulled your senses.”

Sid shook his head wildly. “No, it makes your brain go fuzzy. It…it makes you enter a state of bliss in

which you have no control over your body or actions.”

“Even better”

wwwwww

Saying so, Callahan pulled Sid’s collar down and stuck the injection in his neck as Sid cried and

thrashed against his hold futilely.

“That should serve as a lesson for lying to me and trying to hurt Zenovia. I would have killed you, but I

need you as my puppet, so live as long as I let you. Your days are numbered either way.”

Callahan threw the empty syringe away and looked at me. “Shall we go home?”

I was shuddering and got up instantly and ran towards him again. However, my knees wobbled as I felt

the horror of what would have happened to me had Callahan not arrived in time.

“Yes, please,” I replied and the next second I was plucked off the ground and was in the arms of my

savior.