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"Help you? I should kill you," Leila snarls, charging at him.

"I know you're the phoenix wolf," Tristan puts his hands up to protect himself, backing against her car.

Leila halts midway to striking him, feeling a spike in her heartbeat, her eyes widening in surprise.

"I always like to have leverage over my employees, I had Carmela's phone bugged and I heard a conversation with her dad. I can help you prove the truth but first you have to save me."

Leila grits her teeth, her eyes tight in annoyance, bitterness and anger marauding inside her as she shifts her paws back into arms and clenches her fist.

"I don't trust a word you say. For all I know, this is another one of your master's schemes to get me."

"That bitch is not my master and you can trust me because you know she would never tell anyone her biggest secret when it risks her being exposed. I found out by chance but then my allegiance was to her, I had to do her bidding." "And now?"

Tristan moves his hands away from his face and looks Leila straight in the eyes with a sullen gaze. "Get me away from here and my allegiance will forever be to you."

Leila squints and then sighs deeply. "Get in the car."

She doesn't trust Tristan but if he knows the truth about the phoenix wolf and is willing to expose Carmela's lie about killing the pack witch, she has no choice but to help him.

She drives to her old family house, the one where they used to be neighbours with Kelvin. Stepping out of the car, she walks past their house, walks past Kelvin's and she takes a turn into a bush path with Tristan following behind her.

It's been ages since she came to the place she is taking him, it used to be her safe haven, her place of comfort, known to her and Kelvin alone.

It's where she first discovered andnoveldrama

began to understand that she had feelings for Tatum, it's where she would come to cry in the early days of Carmela's announcement as the phoenix Luna when Tatum no longer spent time with her but gave Carmela all of his attention.

The first day she discovered it, Tatum and her were in her house, playing chess and eating wild fruits when Carmela came. Naturally, the three of them used to hangout before the announcement but Tatum's attention would mostly be on her but on this particular day, she couldn't stomach how the moment Carmela came, it's like she did not exist to him anymore.

She stormed out of the house, midway into a game and got lost, wandering into the woods where she stumbled on an old tree house and from that day, it became a regular place for her to be alone and revel in her sadness. "Careful with the stairs, this thing is older than both our ages combined," Leila says as she climbs up the stairs to the treehouse with Tristan following suit.

"I'm also innocent in all of this. My only crime is framing you. It wasn't I who killed the witch, when I got there, she was already dead but I know who did it, it was the king, the Lycan king," Tristan says the moment they get into the treehouse. "What?" Leila's eyes do not hide her shock. "What business would the Lycan king have with our pack witch?"

"I don't know but he tried to kill me in my cell and his aura was the exact same one I felt hanging in the witch's house, it was him. He did it."

Leila furrows her brows, finding it hard to see any sense or truth in his words. The Lycan king hardly ever reveals himself, none of the Alphas who serve him even knows what he looks like, why would he be interested in killing a witch in their pack of all packs? "I don't believe you."

"I'm telling the truth. The king has

free will to enter any pack unhindered his presence does not need to be announced or made official don't know why he did it or what is plans were but that day, he left my cell with Carmela. If you're going to prove you had nothing to do with the witch's death, you need me, you need what I know."

Leila purses her lips tightly and scratches her brows. Tristan is right, whether he's telling the truth about the king or not, he's the fastest way to prove her innocence.