SWNOVELS Chapter 217
Chapter 217 Two Hundred and Seventeen
Lucianne was so moved that she couldn't speak, and she nodded without hesitation as tears spilled from her eyes. Her non-verbal response made the entire hall erupt in a second round of excitement. Xandar's nerves eased, and he slid the ring into his mate's finger before getting up to pull her into a deep kiss.
When their lips parted, Xandar whispered, “Thank you so much, baby. I love you. I love you so, sO much.”
Lucianne's tears continued to stream down her face as she said, “I love you, too, so much.” The news of their engagement reached all corners of the Kingdom in less than an hour, and there were people who were not happy about it. 1
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Kelissa's bedroom was filled with feathers from all the posh pillows she tore up when she read the latest scoop with the headline “SHE SAID "YES'!", accompanied by photos of Lucianne and Xandar showing off their marks; Xandar down on one knee before a very shocked Lucianne; Xandar grinning broadly as he slid the ring into his mate's finger; and Xandar and Lucianne sharing a kiss.
Lord and Lady Kylton told the maid to leave them alone, and went to sit on either side of their precious daughter on the couch. When Lady Kylton was close to offering her a hug, Kelissa pushed away her mother's arms. Despite being hurt by her daughter's reaction, Lady Kylton understood why her little Kelly was fuming with rage.
“How could he?” Kelissa hissed in a small voice as she continued to breath heavily.
“It's his loss, dear.” Lord Kylton said, and realized he said the wrong thing when his wife's and daughter's glare scared him and his animal. He cleared his throat and muttered, “Sorry about that. That wasn't the right thing to say.”
“No sh't.” Kelissa hissed with no remorse. After another moment, she said, “Not all is lost. I can still win.” 3
Lord Kylton was about to ask how but chose to remain silent when his wife gave a slight shake of her head. Lady Kylton cleared her throat and asked gently, “What do you want us to do now, Kelly?”
Without hesitation, Kelissa said in a low voice, “We have to kill her. It's the only way to make Xandar available again. It's the only way I can mark him after he marks me.”
Lord Kylton nodded in understanding and asked, “Would you like me to call them, or..."
The heiress's onyx eyes burned into her father's careful lilac ones as the heiress shouted, “DO I REALLY SEEM THAT INCAPABLE TO YOU?! DO YOU THINK THIS WOLF IS MORE CAPABLE THAN ME, TOO?"
“No! Of course not! The wolf is a scum!” Lord Kylton defended.
Lady Kylton then helped her husband by saying, “We just want to help, Kelly. You don't have to do everything alone. We know you're strong, dear, and you do so much. We just want to help you.” 2
Kelissa took in her mother's words, and within a few minutes, she managed to get a hold of herself. “It's okay. I'll just give Jake a call and see if we can improvise something. Maybe mixing Oleander with some other poison to make sure it kills the wolf instantly, so that Xandar doesn't suffer.” 2
Lady Kylton smiled warmly and said, “That's very thoughtful of you, Kelly.”
With a hard expression and a murderous glint in her eye, Kelissa said, “This doesn't mean I'll let him off that easily. Once we are mated and marked, and I'm crowned, I'm going to make Xandar BEG for my forgiveness for all this hurt that he is causing me.”
Kelissa dialed Jake's number immediately without a plan in mind, hoping that the rogue Alpha would be able to help her out. The call didn’t go through. She tried again. Nothing. Impatient, she tried a third time as she complained, “What do rogues have to do that requires their Alpha with them anyway? Why wasn't he answering his phone?”
Her parents convinced her to give it an hour. Perhaps Jake was conducting a task for another client and wasn't near his phone at the moment. The task she herself gave him was in a couple of days time. Perhaps he was preparing for that? Her original instructions to him were simple: lightly scratch Xandar with a non-lethal concentration of Oleander when the King was in the process of protecting Lucianne. Kelissa would then send her people to make anonymous phone calls to the press, twisting the story to blame Lucianne for the King's injury. Her private instructions to Jake the other day was for him to mark Lucianne. It was so clear that the rogue Alpha wanted her but it took ten minutes of persuasion from the heiress before he agreed to forcibly mark her. Kelissa did not just waste ten minutes of her life to not get the results she worked for!
Of course, the Kyltons didn't know that the Alpha of the company they owned was already killed...that was until a second big scoop popped up on Kelissa's screen, with the headline: 47 Rogue Lycans and 10 Rogue Wolves Arrested in Mass Infiltration into Rogue Headquarters by the Monarchs, Lycan and Wolf Warriors and Police Force.
Lord Kylton’s face turned white. It couldn't be his company, could it? When Kelissa opened up the article and scrolled through it, seeing Jake's photograph which was captioned as “the deceased leader suspected of running the corporation’, Kelissa threw her phone at her full body mirror and screamed in madness.
In his room, Greg cursed and immediately took his earpiece out as he muttered, “Crazy b*tch.”