Her Devilish Alpha - Chapter 193

“Pretty much.”

“Seriously?” Madeline asked, scoffing.

Emilio looked at her, wondering what Madeline was going to tell him. He had gotten to know her, so it would probably be something about how that wasn’t true.

“Come on, you’re my dad. Sure, I can’t say much about your past decisions that got you to where you are today but you’ve never been short of an amazing dad. Except for the times you tried killing me but we don’t talk about that either. I appreciate what you’ve done and compared to Cornelia, you’re the world’s number one dad.”

Scratching his nape, Emilio admitted, “I don’t think we should be comparing me to Cornelia.”

“Yeah, we probably shouldn’t,” Madeline agreed with him, deciding a change of subject would be more beneficial.

“It must have been something, seeing Cornelia after decades of not seeing each other.”

“Hmm? Oh yeah, it was. It was really shocking, and I was quite glad to see her,” Emilio admitted. He had learnt it was best not to keep anything from Madeline.

Keeping things from her wouldn’t end well, so why not just come clean and tell her everything she needed to know? That way, he could get things off his chest and not have to feel guilty whenever he saw her because he was keeping something from her. The whole being a parent thing changed him. Not only him, but Cornelia too, unbeknownst to most.

“If you want to talk–”

Emilio nodded, “I know, I know. You’re here for me. It’s really sweet of you dear.”

Madeline smiled, before she thought to ask, “By the way, have you seen Rosalynn lately?”

Shaking his head, Emilio answered, “No, I haven’t, not since dinner the other day. Why? Something to talk to her about?”

“No, I just wondered where she was since I haven’t seen her here.”

“Oh, she’s probably staying with your m–”

Emilio paused, realising his mistake.

Madeline interjected, “Oh–”

“Cornelia, I meant that she’s probably staying with Cornelia.”

“Yeah, probably,” Madeline agreed, wondering what else to say.

“If you want to talk to her…”

“Oh it’s fine, I really was just wondering where she was. Besides, I forgot to mention, I talked to Cornelia after dinner. I went to see her again.”

“Oh? Did she tell you anything?” Emilio asked, careful about what he asked her.

Madeline shook her head, “No, nothing much. I just asked her about something that was on my mind for a while and I didn’t get much from her. She can be very tight-lipped.”

“Mhm, tight-lipped. She kept my daughter from me so I think tight-lipped would be a definite understatement,” Emilio spoke, bitterness clearly evident in his tone.

“Right,” Madeline said, trying not to laugh.

She couldn’t possibly put together why she found it funny. It wasn’t supposed to be funny, but the way Emilio had put it…

‘Gah! Why do I want to laugh at the worst times? Curses,’ Madeline thought to herself, rolling her eyes in annoyance.

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“You heard about the reunion,” Xavier said once he heard the door creak open.

“I did,” Adrian nodded.

“Do you want to get straight to the point or do you want to keep lingering here?”

“I’m just surprised you threatened the innocent. That’s so unlike you,” Adrian admitted.

Xavier had a look of resentment burning in his eyes. Adrian wondered if he had made the right decision when he chose to talk to Xavier about it. His mind told him not to bring it up any further with how pissed Xavier looked.

“What did they do to make you so upset?” Adrian questioned.

“Don’t get me started on them, the way they were looking at her… It was like they were defiling her,” Xavier tsked in annoyance before he raised his arms in frustration, “What was I supposed to do? Not come over there once Briar texted?”

Adrian sat down on the chair opposite of Xavier’s, now more interested in the situation than ever.

“Tell me more.”

“I wanted to kill them all,” Xavier muttered.

“You can’t just do that, that’s way too violent! For humans, at least.”

“May I remind you I’m not a human? Not anymore,” Xavier reminded.

“I know, I was referring to them.”

“Right.”

Xavier crushed his pen.

Adrian stared pitifully at the pen.

‘Poor pen. It didn’t do anything to deserve getting crushed,’ he thought to himself.

“What did you tell them?”

“You’re the second person to ask me that,” Xavier said.

Adrian smiled, “Wonder what Madeline’s reaction was when you told her. Must have been bad huh.”

Xavier told Adrian what he told the men to have them scatter away in fright.

Safe to say, Adrian was shocked. His jaw had practically fallen to the floor and Xavier was sure that if he had said any more, Adrian would have fainted.

“I’m not sure if I should be proud of you as my friend, or give you one long lecture as your beta,” Adrian admitted.

“Save the lecture. Madeline seemed perfectly fine with it,” Xavier said, flipping a page over as he continued to read something.

“Geez, you’re acting like you didn’t do anything.”

Xavier scoffed, “You should have seen Briar yesterday. She was doubling down from laughter and just enjoying what happened.”

“So what, you and Briar are friends now too?”

“Is that a hint of jealousy I hear in your voice? I’m not going to steal her or take her from you, besides, I only have eyes for one person and one person only and you know that,” Xavier joked.

Adrian grumbled, “I’m not jealous, I know you won’t take her. Anyway, she’s already interested in some other person.”

Xavier looked even more smug once Adrian mentioned it, “Oh? Briar’s interested in someone else?”

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Author’s Note: So sorry you could only access the chapters now! I added extra chapters to the final priv tier (so now readers have access to 30 chapters if they buy the last privilege). Hope you guys enjoy the new chapters, and I hope you guys all have a lovely day.

Love, mari.