My Guardian Married My Sister But I’m His Alpha Chapter 18
Sterling dropped Chiara off at her hotel but didn’t get out of the car.
“The Morettis will be in touch tomorrow,” he said. “Your grandfather won’t let this go. If you can’t handle it, call me.”
The tinted window slid up, and the Bentley merged seamlessly into traffic.
Chiara stood on the curb, watching the car disappear.
She was still holding the key card he had pressed into her hand before he left.
His Beta had booked the room next to hers.
“Just in case,” he’d said, in the same tone someone might use to delegate a routine task.
Back in her room, Chiara tossed the card onto the table and collapsed onto the bed, staring up at the ceiling.
The gray sprinkler head was identical to the one in the apartment she’d lived in as a child.
Back then, her father was still alive. Griffin wasn’t yet Francesca’s husband or Nightfall’s acting Alpha.
And she was still just a girl secretly in love with him.
Her phone vibrated.
Three messages from Francesca, one right after the other.
*When did you and Sterling get together? Why didn’t you tell the family or the Pack Registry?*
*Mom is furious. She says you’ve been hiding this from the family. Grandpa’s worried Ironwood is trying to interfere in Nightfall’s affairs.*
*Ironwood may be powerful, but do you really know him? I’m worried you’re being manipulated by an Alpha under the guise of courtship.*
Chiara read the messages, a bitter laugh rising in her throat.