My Ex Husband The Alpha His Brother The Rogue novel Chapter 31

Chapter 31

Chapter 31

-Kael

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I woke up to the uneven sounds of my own breath. My head is pounding like it has a pulse of its own, and a terrible ache splits across my temple.

My body feels heavy, my mouth is dry and my throat is parched.

“Ughhh…” I grunt, clutching my temple as I roll over in bed.

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My head isn’t the only part of me that aches. Pain radiates around the skin of my left wrist as well, it feels like a bruise from something hard and coarse.

Metal?

My mind immediately works to trace the memory of how I ended up like this.

Last night… I was drugged.

I recall the feeling of the foreign substance in my blood stream, stirring my wolf to an almost feral haze.

After meeting Alpha Scott, I got back to my office. The pain hit then, and I tried to suppress it…

Then… I picked up my phone and called Laila…

What did we talk about?

I don’t remember it. I don’t remember much else than that moment where I dialled her number. My mind feels slow and my memories are fragmented.

Everything is blank until hours later when I hobble out of the club, snatching the keys of my bike from the varlet and driving home before Blake could catch up.

Before that…the memories are like fragments, like a huge part of my memory has shattered and an even larger part has been cut out.

There’s not much I can do about the blank parts, but I try to piece the fragments together.

Before dashing out of the club, I woke up with someone in

my

bed…

In the early hours of the morning, her blonde hair splayed over my chest, her arm around my waist like she belonged there.

The lighting was dim, but the sheets were tangled around her waist and her skin was bare, a familiar tattoo inked across her waist…

Julie!

I sit up too fast, and the room spins around me. I don’t remember how she got into my bed. I don’t

remember

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touching her. Hell, I don’t even remember how I got down to my red room.

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I don’t remember much of anything after the drugs blurred everything out. But this… waking up with Julie in my arms, this wasn’t how I expected last night to go at all.

Not in my head, at least. And yet somehow, it doesn’t matter.

Because what I do remember is waiting. I know I waited. Not for Julie, for Laila. She was supposed to come to me. I sat there with the pain setting my veins on fire and I waited for her.

If she had shown up, I would have felt it. I would’ve known… she would have been the one in my bed when I woke up.

But she never came. She hadn’t bothered. She didn’t care. I didn’t expect her to either. Last night confirmed. to me what I already know. Laila and I are two strangers sharing a home, with a contract binding us together.

Grunting beneath my breath, I swing my feet off the bed. Clutching the wall for support as I make my way to the bathroom.

Running a cold shower quickly sobers me and the ache in my head subsidies just enough.

Getting out, I dry myself and throw on some casual pants and a tee shirt. It’s a weekend, so I don’t have to go to the office at Blackwood Co. I have some business to handle at the club, but that’s for much later in the day.

My phone buzzes on the nightstand. I pick it up. Blake has left me about a dozen missed calls.

I sigh, returning his call. The line rings once before it clicks and his voice comes through,

“It’s good to know you didn’t die in a crash somewhere.” He says first, skipping the pleasantries and going straight to the point.

I roll my eyes, “Where are you?”

“Still at the club. I’ll be over in an hour.” He says.

I hum in response. Blake goes silent and I’m about to hang up the call when he continues, “Kael?”

“Last night…” He goes quiet again, hesitant. “Do you remember anything from last night?”

I frown slightly. “Other than the fact that I fucked Julie? No, not really.”

“I’m sure I can guess the events leading up to her getting into my bed. After I told you not to let anyone in.”

“Laila…” He leaves his words hanging.

“What about her?” I ask,

Blake goes silent for a moment too long. “Nothing. I’ll be there soon.”

My frown deepens as the line goes dead. Shaking my head slightly, I head down the stairs just in time to hear

Marie say,

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“Yes. He came in a little after dawn.”

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I stop by the door, watching Laila’s expression contort into a frown.

Is she mad I didn’t come home last night? Or does she know about Julie?

I shake off the thought. There’s no way she would know, unless she saw it herself.

And that couldn’t be possible because she never showed up. Right?

Marie asks Laila if she wants to have breakfast together. I glance down at my wristwatch.

I do have some time to spare, but before I can say anything, Laila finally notices me.

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Her eyes don’t widen in surprise, instead her gaze turns steely. The smile on her face drops instantly.

She declined curtly and got up to her feet, brushing past me.

I resist the urge to scoff. She’s the one who abandoned me last night and now she’s ignoring me like I’m the problem.

This is why I don’t deal with fragile women. They get too sensitive over things like getting home late, forgetting I never had to come home every night for the past three years… I chose to.

Not for her either. For Liam. Because being his father, even if it’s only temporary, means being more responsible than I usually would be.

Laila doesn’t meet my eyes, not once. Something feels off… something in her silence gnaws at me.

The way she walks past me like I don’t even exist. She’s always been cautious and distant, but this is worse. It’s deeper… like she knows something. Like she saw.

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