Chapter 33

Alpha Xavier

When I mentioned Alpha Gabriel, Sylvia's face drained of color, and she swallowed hard. Her eyes widened in fear.

So I immediately knew something was wrong. She did not want to see that.

It seemed like she was faking sickness to avoid appearing before him to serve him that day. I had to do something to help her, so I used my magic to alter her facial feature right before the trial. When he did not recognize her, it appeared that she had not checked herself in a mirror beforehand. No wonder she was surprised herself when he didn't recognize her!

She expressed her gratitude toward me when I explained all this to her, but I felt like she was still hiding something from me.

So this evening, I am out on a hunt, but my mind keeps wandering back to that day.

'Do you think she's lying, Xavier? I can't tell if her story is real or not," my wolf Xander asks me.

"I don't know what to believe," I sigh. She claimed she used to be the maid of Gabriel's fiancée, but there is something a