Chapter 33
Chapter 33
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Third-Person POV
The drive home was silent. Nolan didn’t say a word and Ellie was focused on her phone, paying absolutely no attention to him. Finally, Nolan couldn’t take the silence anymore.
“Do you know who that man was?” he asked. “Kieran. The alpha of Silver Fang. He’s using you to stir up trouble.”
“It was just a dance,” Ellie said dismissively.
She felt absolutely no pity for Nolan about this. He played his little games with Felicity in front of everyone, so why should she feel bad about having one dance with someone else?
Nolan didn’t say another word for the rest of the evening. When they returned home, he retired to the guest room. He expected Ellie to be hurt by this – the old her would have cried and begged him to come back to bed.
When that didn’t happen, his curiosity got the better of him. He’d been in bed for a few hours, unable to sleep, when he finally decided to peek into the room and see if Ellie was as miserable as he expected.
But she wasn’t. She was fast asleep, a content smile on her face, sprawled out across the entire bed. She seemed to be enjoying having the bed to herself.
Nolan just stared – it was like he was looking at a completely different person. Part of him wondered if the Ellie he knew was in there at all anymore.
The next morning Nolan went about his day as usual. He got up early, did his workout, and then waited at breakfast. But Ellie didn’t come down.
She used to always wake up early, insist on cooking, making little heart-shaped pancakes for him- but she’d been sleeping in every day lately.
It irritated him. He’d hardly slept because of her little stunt at the party. He was damned if he was going to let her sleep in and laze about all day. He went upstairs to wake her.
He threw the door open and stalked toward the bed but stopped short when he noticed something on the nightstand – a bottle of pills he didn’t recognize. He picked it up and examined the label: multivitamins.
Nolan frowned in confusion. He’d never heard of any healthy wolf needing to take a multivitamin, so what was she doing with these?
Ellie snatched the bottle from his hand, glaring up at him with sleepy eyes.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
“What are you doing with these?” he demanded.
Ellie sat up and gave him a dismissive wave. “They’re supposed to be a beauty trick
for better skin and hair,” she said.
Nolan only looked at her suspiciously and turned to leave the room.
He went to his office and searched online for the multivitamins, looking for an explanation for why she might
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Only two came up: either she was, in fact, pregnant and taking them to ensure she had enough vitamins for the baby, or she was hoping they would help her recover from her injury.
He tapped his fingers on the desk, trying to decide which explanation made the most sense. He was getting so many mixed signals from her.
Part of him was already convinced that she was pregnant, but he didn’t want to accept that didn’t want to admit that she was hiding it from him.
Ellie’s POV
I came downstairs a short time later, already dressed in a casual but flattering outfit for the day. I didn’t have much of an appetite after the little confrontation with Nolan. He was getting more suspicious and I was really starting to wonder if he knew the truth.
It wasn’t helped by the fact that Nolan was still giving me the cold shoulder.
We both poked at our breakfast until I finally broke the awkward silence.
“So, what do we have on the agenda for today?” I asked.
Nolan pulled his phone out and made a show of checking his schedule before saying, “Nothing that I need you for.”
He meant it to upset me, but I only smiled brightly. “Does that mean I have the day to myself? I can go out?”
“Whatever,” Nolan replied tightly.
I jumped up and went upstairs. I grabbed a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses as I tapped away on my phone, ordering myself a ticket for a car race that was scheduled for the afternoon and texting Rae to meet me there. We still had plenty of time to get there.