Her Devilish Alpha - Chapter 210

“HOW DARE HE?” Emilio roared, feeling like killing Xavier’s brother. He glared at her, disappointed in her, “HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO BE UPSET? DON’T DEFEND HIM, WHAT HE DID IS UNFORGIVABLE.”

Madeline placed a hand on his back, and he sighed, feeling like pulling all the hair out of his head and punching into Xavier’s brother’s chest and crushing his heart.

“I know,” she whispered, her voice trembling. She had never seen Emilio this mad before. Sure, she had watched in terror as he desperately tried finding her with the full intent of killing her, but he was more amused by her bravado at the time. He was never this mad before.

It touched her that he cared about her this much to get this riled up once he heard what Lawrence had attempted, but she knew that Lawrence had been humiliated because of what he’d done, and it was because of Lawrence that she and Xavier got a day to themselves. After Xavier caught Lawrence up with everything he was supposed to do and all that, the man threatened him, saying that he’d hurt him in ways unimaginable if he attempted anything.

Lawrence promised he wouldn’t do anything, of course, but Madeline was unsure if he had really kept his promise. However, Adrian was there with him the entire time. And it was Xavier’s territory, not his. He was still outnumbered if he even dared try anything. He wouldn’t make it out alive, and no one would spare him. Even if he tried to pretend to be Xavier, Madeline figured.

“He doesn’t get to do this to you and get away with it, you know,” Emilio said to her.

Madeline nodded, remembering what Xavier had done to Lawrence. She began, “Does it make you feel better to know that Xavier punched Lawrence into a wall?”

Emilio blinked, before a small smile came across his face, “He did?”

“He sure did,” Madeline said, mumbling, “Right in front of me.”

To her surprise, Emilio clapped, admitting, “I’ve never been more proud of Xavier, he did the right thing.”

“Dad!” Madeline exclaimed.

“What? He tried sleeping with you. Am I supposed to be upset or frustrated that Xavier punched him to a wall? Xavier lands strong punches too, he must’ve broken the wall huh.”

“I will neither confirm nor deny that.”

“You don’t have to, but something still needs to be done with him,” Emilio said, before he turned his attention back to Madeline completely, asking her, “But are you alright?”

“Me? Alright?”

“Yes. Isn’t your soulmate’s twin brother tricking you into thinking he’s your soulmate and trying to sleep with you not something to get upset about? I’d think it is.”

Emilio was still upset, but he knew it was better if he didn’t seem upset now and got all the facts first.

Madeline bit her inner cheek, “I mean, I realised that he wasn’t Xavier before we did anything, but if I hadn’t and I had actually done something with him then…”

She couldn’t say what she wanted to say next. She thought to herself, the continuation of the sentence in her mind, ‘I wouldn’t ever be able to face Xavier again without remembering it. I don’t think I’d ever forgive myself.’

Embracing Emilio, she realised the severity of the situation that she had recently been in. She and Xavier had talked about it yesterday, but she had stuffed all the ‘what ifs’ to the back of her mind, refusing to think about what she would have done if she’d actually slept with Lawrence.

At that moment, she was extremely grateful towards Emilio. She hadn’t talked to Briar about it since she hadn’t seen Briar that day and had been out with Xavier yesterday, there wasn’t any time for her to speak to her friend about it and she felt it was best to pay Emilio a visit and reassure him she was alright. She knew her father, and how he’d be dead worried about her if he hadn’t heard from her.

Changing the subject, Madeline said to her father, “You should’ve seen Xavier when he was trying to win something from this game, he got so frustrated.”

“Oh?” Emilio said, sounding curious. What game would Xavier partake in that would have him so frustrated?

An amused look replaced Madeline’s tiny smile, and she told Emilio everything that had happened at the arcade. Sure, she had to explain to him what a claw machine and an arcade was, as well as what Xavier had to do to win and how he had eventually won the teddy bear. She found it adorable, and sweet of him to refuse to give up, all to win her that teddy bear when the only reason she had wanted it in the first place was because the bear reminded her of him.

“The only reason I ever wanted that bear in the first place was because it sort of reminded me of him,” Madeline admitted.

Emilio laughed softly, “And he ended up getting you that bear.”

“The bear’s even holding a heart, it’s adorable.”

They continued talking, before Emilio said Madeline had spent enough time with him for one day when in reality, he didn’t want her to leave. He simply said so because he figured Madeline was being polite, not wanting to leave his side to hang out with her friends or talk to Xavier because she wanted to spend time with him and not leave him alone.

“Go now, I’ll be fine here,” Emilio reassured.

“Why do most of our conversations end up with you reassuring me that everything will be fine?” Madeline questioned.

He shrugged, “No idea, but you should go now, dear.”

“Alright, bye dad,” Madeline said, bidding her father farewell before she returned to her room to grab something before visiting Briar next.

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Author’s Note: So we hit twenty-two golden tickets, meaning a bonus chapter will be released. The bonus chapter will be coming in about an hour, so stay tuned, and I hope you all have a lovely day!

Love, mari.