THE LYCAN KING’S SECOND CHANCE MATE

REAGAN'S POV.

"What's with the goofy smile on your face?" I ask, blindly strapping on my seatbelt with my gaze focused on Kyle who's behind the steering wheel. That stupid smile crept on his face the moment I stepped into this car.

"Nothing." He answers and I know he's lying. I adjust myself on my seat and shoot him a serious look.

"Stop playing with me."

"Fine." He raises both hands as a sign of surrender. "I'm just happy you didn't take her to your chambers."

"My chambers?" I ask, my eyebrows creasing to reflect the confused state of my mind. "What do you mean?"

"I'm talking about Selena and the fact that you asked me to prepare this apartment for her. I was relieved because at first, I thought you'd take her to your chambers and let her stay there with you."

"Take her to my chambers?" The words sound so foreign to me. That thought never crossed my mind even once.

Take Selena to live with me in my chambers? I could never do that!

"Would you believe me if I told you that thought never crossed my mind? Even for one second?" I asked with furrowed brows.

"Oh..." He exclaims in surprise. "That's hard to believe."

"But it's the truth. Thinking about it has set my mind in chaos. If I take Selena to my chambers and Ashanti finds out, things will fall apart."

"Exactly. That's why I'm happy you didn't do that." He still has that goofy smile on his face. I lean back on my seat and face him fully, my eyes giving him a critical look that bores deep into his soul. There's something he's not telling me.

"Tell me Kyle, why do you hate Selena so much?"

"Why do I hate Selena?" The smile on his face has faded. There's confusion written in bold on his forehead as he gives me a troubled stare. "Where's that coming from?"

"Why don't you want me to take her to my chambers?”

"Because I don't like her for you. I don't trust her yet. It has nothing to do with me hating her. I don't hate her."

"Right. I'm Sorry I went too far with my thoughts."

"It's okay. I understand."

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"I like the sound of that. Did she tell you anything useful?"

"She said nothing about her past, we just spoke about ourselves and..." I stop and watch him adjust on his seat so he can face me fully.

"And what?" He sounds very impatient. My mind replays the conversation I just had with Selena I'm still shaken by those two solid questions she asked me and the tone with which she spoke. I got a hint of some sense of entitlement in that tone.

She's back and she's back for me.

She definitely wants us to get together again.

"She asked me some very disturbing questions, Kyle."

"I'm all ears if you want to share."

I take in two sharp breaths before proceeding to tell him all about the conversation I had with Selena there. By the time I'm done, he's frowning like an angry bear and shaking his head disapprovingly.

“She wants in again. She definitely wants in and when she finds out about your second mate Ashnati, there will be trouble."

"Big trouble." I confirm his words.

"You know you can't keep both girls, right?"

"I do not intend to do that!"

"So you have to choose and you have to do that quickly!"

"I don't want to make any rash decisions, Kyle. The Moon goddess has a reason for letting something like this happen. I have to figure out that reason before going ahead to make any sort of decision."

"That's why we have to start

investigating Selena now. You are clean. As far as I know, Ashanti is clean as well. The only person with a shady story here is Selena and that's why we need to get her to talk. Get her to talk. She needs to tell us where has been all these years, who she has been with and what she has been up to. There's a shocking plot twist waiting for us at the end of this tunnel. And it's not a good plot twist, it's gonna be a bad one. I can feel it in my blood!"

"My goodness! Your hatred for Selena runs deep. You detest her with every fibre in your body. Don't even try to deny."

"I don't trust her. That's all."

"Fine. I promised to give her time to sort her thoughts but it's obvious we don't have the luxury of time right now. We need to iron this problem out before it swallows us. The next time come here to see her, I'll ask her to tell me what I need to know about the happenings in her life for the past five years and from there, we can start our investigation. Happy now?"

"I'm elated. Thank you!" He faces forward and ignites the car engine.

Kyle's speculation about a possible soul taking plot twist waiting for us ahead makes my organs shiver in fright.

Could it be that there's more to this situation than what meets the eyes?

Are Selena's motives for returning good or bad?