Then I heard him drop from the bed.
“How dare you say that to me? I’m not cheating on my wife,” he choked out, voice splintering. A wet, broken sound slipped between his teeth—Alpha Kyo was crying.
Guilt slammed through me. I opened my mouth to speak, but he cut me off.
“Shut up… shut up.”
Glass shattered behind the command. Something—maybe a lamp—hit the wall and exploded into shards.
“Shut up,” he sobbed again, each repetition more ragged than the last.
“Please, I’m sorry. I didn’t mea—”
“I said you should shut up!” The roar was feral, laced with grief. “If you talk again, I will end your life. You don’t know my story. If you did, you’d never have said that.”
The door creaked open. A servant’s timid voice: “Hope all is—”
A slap cracked through the room. “Leave this place.”
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