“I heard none of that matters, though, when a dragon scents his mate,” I said calmly.
Lianna’s breathing became harsh.
“You’re not.He’s mine.I’ve known him for years.”
“And what do you think, Mr.Steele.Are you Lianna’s?”I asked, releasing my hold.
He lifted his head to meet my gaze.
“I’m yours, Sophia.Everything I have, all my connections, wealth, family, they’re yours too.”
“I know that, but she doesn’t.”
A growl started deep in his chest as he slowly turned his head toward Lianna.
“You are nothing to me, Lianna.You never were, and you never will be.”
If she moved, I didn’t see it, but Konni saw something because I was sitting on his chair, alone, a second later, and he had her pinned to the wall by her throat.
“She’s brainwashed you,” Lianna said.“You just need time away from her.If that geriatric idiot had listened, you would already see that we?—”
Konni slammed her into the wall and let out a dragon bellow that shook the window.
Oh shit.
I jumped to my feet, unsure if I should try to calm him down or get further away.
“What did you do, Lianna?”Konni demanded, slamming her again.
The second slam seemed to knock some sense into her.The undiluted hate in her gaze faded into fear.
“She’s not your mate.She’s blinded you to?—”
“If you won’t confess to me, you’ll confess to them.Edi!”
Edi stepped into the office, looking pale.It might have had something to do with the way Lianna was suddenly struggling to get out of Konni’s hold.She was begging, so I knew it wasn’t because he was suffocating her.
“Call the elders,” Konni said.“They have fifteen minutes before I resolve the problem myself.”
Edi disappeared from the doorway.
Lianna stopped fighting, a look of defeat on her face.“I didn’t hurt her, Drake.I only moved her.”
“Moved her?To Hestian’s estate?The place where she was hurt?”
“He wasn’t supposed to hurt her!”
“No, he was just supposed to wait for her mark to fade and then rape her, right?”
As he spoke, an unnatural flush crawled up her neck.This time, when she clawed at his hand and arm, I saw a different kind of panic.He was choking her.
“Babe, can you take some pity on me and step away from the ho?I don’t have the emotional bandwidth to witness a homicide right now.”
He immediately released Lianna.Her knees gave out, and she fell to the floor, wheezing as blood trickled from the puncture wounds his claws had made.
Although he backed several steps away from her, he didn’t take his eyes off her.
“You have a choice,” he said.“Confess everything to the elders or the human police.”
