Taking a deep breath, Marcus ultimately surrendered. His voice trembled while he talked, the words tumbling out swiftly.
"Vivian caught me. She caught me while I was doing it," he stuttered. "She visited my house to retrieve one of her brother's phones that he had forgotten in my apartment the previous day." He gulped, his hands shaking even more violently at that moment. "Ronan informed me that his sister would come by to pick up the phone as he had an emergency and couldn't handle it the following morning." "However, I didn't anticipate her."
Cecilia's gaze sharpened, her wolf's growl reverberating in her thoughts, her fury swelling like a wave poised to engulf all in its way. "What happened, Marcus?" Her voice was a knife, keen and relentless, slicing through his efforts to evade the
