Her Devilish Alpha - Chapter 209

“Oh, thank luna, you’re fine,” Emilio said once he saw Madeline. He looked her up and down, checking for any injuries or anything out of instinct.

“Of course, I’m fine. It was a date, not a fight,” Madeline assured, “I’m fine, dad. I’m fine. It was fun.”

“Alright, alright. So, do you want to tell me what you and Xavier did yesterday?”

“I do,” Madeline answered, excitement radiating off of her voice.

“Must have gone well since you’re so happy.”

“Hehe, it did go well. We had lunch together, then we picked out books, read together, ate dinner, stargazed, then the date ended. Nothing to worry about.”

“I just wanted to know if your date went well,” Emilio admitted, chuckling. He hid the fact that he was nervously pacing around his room the previous night, wondering if Madeline was okay.

Thankfully, she was. And she looked extremely happy so Emilio was happy too. Happy for her, especially. It was nice knowing that Madeline got to experience the joys and highs of love, it brought him back to when he and Cornelia were like that. Sure, they weren’t on the greatest terms now but they did share fond memories together.

Fond memories he thought back to whenever he felt miserable in his cave. One would think that the ex-alpha wouldn’t have any fond memories to look back on other than when he slaughtered the innocent, but they’d find that they were completely wrong. Just when he thought there was nothing to live for, fate brought Madeline right to him.

Had he killed her and found out that she was his and Cornelia’s lovechild, he would’ve never been able to live with himself. It was part of the reason why he worried about her quite often. He couldn’t protect her, not when he was confined to a room. Sure, it was way better than that purgatory of a cave but that didn’t mean he felt better.

To an extent, he felt worse. He could only interact with Madeline when she visited him, or when something had happened to her. When he had learnt Madeline had passed out, he had been so distraught. He had trouble thinking, trouble breathing. It was like the world was caving on him. Seemed like parenthood was really changing him.

Madeline caught Emilio looking at her worriedly, as if he was terrified to let her go – which he actually was. He never got to see her grow up, so that meant he’d protect her as much as he could now that he got the chance to. He simply felt obliged to.

It provided Emilio some relief knowing that Xavier protected Madeline. Xavier was stronger than him, there was no doubting that. He wasn’t calling Madeline weak or incompetent to the point she couldn’t protect herself, of course not. However, it was just nice knowing that Xavier was there. The same man that he had taught and imparted his wisdom to.

Hmm, perhaps imparting his wisdom wasn’t the right way to put it. Point was, Xavier was better than nothing. Emilio was still bitter about what Xavier had done to him, but it wasn’t Xavier that kept Madeline from him, it was Cornelia. Xavier only brought her to him, in a way.

Had Madeline not brought Xavier up, who knew what would have happened? Emilio wouldn’t have hesitated to kill her and would have her beheaded on the spot. He would’ve… he didn’t want to think about it. Simply thinking about it made him feel repulsed.

“It did,” Madeline confirmed, nodding before she saw the expression on his face. She told him, “Also, did you know that Xavier had a twin brother?”

“A twin brother?” Emilio questioned, sounding amused. He shook his head, “I was told that someone was covering for him but I never thought it was his twin brother. I was just aware he had family and refused to talk about it.”

“Oh,” Madeline said.

“Wow, he has a twin brother.”

Madeline remembered how Xavier had reacted when he had discovered what Lawrence had tried doing, so she decided it was best she kept it a secret from Emilio for as long as possible. However, she wouldn’t keep everything from him.

She admitted, her hand on the back of her neck, “I was tricked into thinking he was Xavier.”

Raising his brow, Emilio inquired, “How were you tricked?”

“He joked around with me, acted like Xavier, he was very convincing. When in truth he’s quite different from Xavier. Xavier’s a gentleman, he’s–”

Madeline hesitated.

Emilio tilted his head to the side, “He’s what?”

“Err.”

“Not a gentleman, did he do something to you?” Emilio questioned, his eyes widening in horror and anger. He peered at her, eyes burning with rage  now, “Did he? Answer me, Madeline.”

Hearing him call her name made Madeline shudder, the tone he used made it quite evident he was concerned and wanted to know the truth.

“And does Xavier know what happened?” Emilio asked next, his tone sounding more concerned than angry now. He knew that Xavier had a nasty temper, it was something he and Xavier shared in common. If Xavier’s brother had actually done something to Madeline, and Xavier found out, he wouldn’t have reacted nicely.

“Promise you won’t be upset?”

“If it’s something to be upset about, how can I not be upset?” Emilio reasoned, adding, “Since you asked me to promise not to be upset, it must be serious. Tell me. What. Did. He. Do.”

Madeline had no one else to blame but herself. She had placed herself in this situation, Emilio was simply concerned. Fidgeting with her hands, she answered, “He tried to seduce me, admitted to wanting to get me to sleep with him despite knowing I’m interested in Xavier.”

“WHAT?” Emilio bellowed, his voice echoing off his room’s walls.. Fire burned in his emerald green orbs, and he could’ve sworn that if Madeline weren’t in the room with him he would have ripped something apart, or thrown something.