Chapter 524

Madeline:

“He’s such a childish man. He should have at least had a word with us,” Byron complained as he walked briskly behind us toward the exit, where our car was parked along the road.

I was ahead of them because I did not want to slow down and let them see my face. I was deeply emotional.

When I reached the car, Byron slid into the driver’s seat and I took the passenger seat, while Valeria climbed into the back.

She immediately opened the files to study something, or maybe she was just trying to avoid an awkward conversation by pretending to be busy.

“Are you okay?” Byron asked.

I kept my gaze fixed outside the window.

“I do not blame him for being upset, Byron. We have all let him down,” I murmured under a slow breath.

“Yeah, but that does not mean he should not acknowledge that we are doing all this for him. He should have at least spoken to Valeria today. Now we will have to wait for another meeting,” Byron complained as he drove, casual and seemingly unconcerned about Ron’s feelings.

Or maybe he did understand, but he focused on the main goal rather than what was happening on the side for now.

“He was really hurt,” I said quietly.

Byron cleared his throat to show he was listening, but I did not continue.

“You can tell me,” he urged.

I softly shook my head.

One hand wrapped around my chest while my other elbow rested on it, and I gently pinched my bottom lip between my index finger and thumb.

“Is it about the baby? Is he upset that she did not care for the baby and lost it?” he asked, trying to understand what I was hiding.

I shook my head again.

“Are you not going to tell me?” he pressed.

“I do not think it is my place to say anything,” I replied with a heaviness in my voice.

He remained silent for a moment, then suddenly uttered, “Is it about the cheating?”

He said it in such a low tone that for a few seconds, I had to gather his words to understand if I had truly heard him.

Then, once I was sure, he repeated himself.

“Do you seriously think she cheated on him?” he asked.

I started to fidget with my fingers, unable to respond. The truth was, I needed to speak with someone who could tell me there was another

In

reason that she would not have

done it. But there was none.

She

cheated on him, and she told me she

did.

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“Madeline, we will have to meet him either tomorrow or the day after. I hope this time he opens up a bit,” Valeria said as we dropped her off at her apartment complex.

In response, I could only nod because I did not even know if he would agree to meet us. He had made it very clear that he would not work with us until we had punished Yuvonne.

Once she shut the car door and walked away, I turned to look at Byron.

“I do not want you to tell anyone anything, but when Yuvonne said she cheated on him, it seems like your theories were right.”

That was all I said before he closed his eyes and leaned his head back against the seat, puckering his lips to show he was not happy about being right.

“The scary part is that Ron knows,” I added.

“And he is angry with me for still keeping her at my place when she betrayed us.”

I finished, feeling lighter in my chest.

“First of all, who told Ron about it? Second of all, why the fuck did he believe it? am not saying she did not admit to not doing it, but we need to understand why he is confident about it someone else” told him. Was it someone very trustworthy?” Byron asked.

He paused and turned to me, one hand resting on the steering wheel while the other

stretched behind my chair, keeping a careful distance.

“He said he watched a video of the whole thing between Yuvonne and Graham,” I whispered, looking down because I felt odd even talking about it.

Byron stared at me in silence for a few seconds. It made me look up and finally meet his gaze.

“No, I am just thinking. Graham and Yuvonne’s interaction was recorded and shown

to Ron. That is interesting,” he mumbled, removing his hands from the wheel and cracking his knuckles.

His eyes drifted into the distance, as if he were piecing something together.

“I do not know what to say,” I

whispered. “do not even know who

showed the video to Ron or what their motive was. Was it Graham? Did he do it because Yuvonne ended the child? What is going on? Dhave no clue.”

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I covered my face with my hands and rubbed it before lowering them and folding

them over my chest.

“That is kind of a pattern, you know,” Byron said.

His words made me turn to look at him.

“The alpha goes to jail or falls into a coma, and the hyenas come out and somehow make the Luna sleep with them,” he added, his voice low, as if he were speaking to himself, yet it held my full attention.