Chapter 18 Poisoned Words
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"What meaning am I supposed to get from that?" Kira's eyes gleamed as she prepared her speech.
"I think she's lying to you." The word landed intentionally like a spark. This made Jax's frown to deepened.
"Why would she even lie to me about such a thing?" Kira lowered her voice, moving closer to him.
"Maybe, she's doing everything to cover something even worse."
Jax stared at her, confused, and at the same time suspicious. He was left uneasy, not knowing what to do.
"And if I may ask, what exactly would be worse than that already?" He asked. This made Kira's smile to widen slowly.
"One of the possibilities is her sleeping with someone she shouldn't in the first place."
This made Jax to narrow his eyes, as his mind never for once crossed there. "Who could that be?"
Kira didn't make effort to answer immediately. Instead, she focused her gaze toward the training grounds.
"You should think about it," she finally replied. "You should think about it this way...who reacted the most today?"
Immediately, Jax's mind started replaying the scene with Ronan. From the growl, to the tension that was created afterwards, and his face went pale.
"Do you in anyway think...?" He started, but didn't finish. Kira shrugged lightly, glad he was getting just what she wanted him to get.
"I don't concentrate on thinking anything yet," she added smoothly. She didn't want a situation where she would be singled out for accusing the Alpha falsely. "I'm just...a little bit observat to the happenings in my surroundings."
Even as she tried to deny it, her eyes still said otherwise. They were very sharp, focused, and at the same time very hungry to let the truth out.
She can't wait to have Jax all to herself, hence, the reason she's investigating the matter.
Later that evening, Kira still stood alone, in deep thought as usual. This time, she concentrated on Elara's behavior, Ronan's reaction, and even Jax's uncertainty of everything happening.
All of these somehow pointed out to one direction that no one was willing to look at. And she had made it her duty to figure out everything.
"No one dared humiliate me and get away from it," she murmured under her breath. Her grip on the glass of wine became even more tighten, like she has a personal beef with it.
"And if in your wildest world, you think you can lie to me, Elara.."
Her lips carefully curved into a very dangerous smile that didn't reach her teeth. "Then, you are still not aware of my kind of person at all."
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The night was strangely quiet, the kind that Jax doesn't like. He had returned to his room, his elbow resting on his knees, as he stared into space. His mind hasn't been at rest, especially after his little chit chat with Kira earlier that day.
"You barely touched her most of the times..."
"Or, she's pretending to..."
"You can testify to being with me most of the nights..."
He exhaled slowly, as he ran a frustrated hand through his rough hair. Everything wasn't making sense to him. None of them did.
"Elara wouldn't go as far as lying about something of that nature... especially when she caught me with Kira." He muttered to himself, trying to draw every conviction he could get from there.
Would she do such? As he was still in deep thought, he heard a knock on the door. Then, without him inviting the person in, the door opened. Again, it was Kira.
Of course, it would be the only person that had left hm questioning many things that he knew about himself lately.
She stepped in like she's paying the rent, quietly closing the door behind her.
"You look greatly troubled," she said, her voice coming out smooth like she wasn't the one that put his mind into such mess in the first place.
"I'm fine." He simply said.
Kura smiled, understanding the code.
"No, you're nothing close to being fine."
She moved closer, in a slow and deliberate act, making sure her scent filled him, as her heels did magic on the floor, clicking softly.
"You've spent greater part of your evening thinking about what I said."
Jax glanced at her, though not surprised that she could read him like a book.
"You talk too much for a pretty lady."
Kura chuckled that he still remembered how to compliment her beauty. "Yet, here you are... wasting away and thinking about another."
She stopped in front of him, her arms still folded, as she focused on his eyes.
"Tell me Jax," she continued. "Do you trust her?"
The question came unexpectedly, hitting harder than such should do. This made Jax to frown, not knowing the response to give her.
"What kind of question is that to start with?"
"It's a simple one that requires simple answer."
They remained in silence, until Jax looked away, which was clearly him trying to dodge it. And Kira knew exactly what that means.
"That's exactly what I thought too," she murmured after a few seconds of silence.
"I never admitted not trusting her to you." Jax snapped before he could stop himself.
"But at the same time, you still didn't say you do either." Her words kind of made sense, more like poison into his system.
Jax clenched his fist, as he noticed how her words were slowly, deliberately, and effectively diffusing into him.
"She's pregnant," he replied. "You should know by now that you can't possibly fake such "
Kira raised a brow at him, more like she was talking to a moron.
"I promise you, faking pregnancy was never part of what I meant."
He paused, his heart pounding restlessly. "What exactly are you trying to explain?"
Kira smiled. A huge smirk plastered by the corner of her lips.
"I'm saying... maybe, she decided to lie. But this could be about who the father of the baby is."
Jax stared at her like she had grown horns overnight.
"You may be over reacting," he replied, even though he was suspicious himself.
"Am I?" Kura asked, as she lowered her voice. "Then, you should have no problem answering my question. What made her to return to you all of a sudden?
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