Taming the Hybrid Mate: Desired by Five Alphas-Chapter 194: Its a secret

Andria’s POV

"I can see that you are looking me up. You like what you see?" He chuckled, rolling the pen in his hands. "I need not ask that."

I couldn’t help but drool. My mind travels to that very day on his sheets, the way his hands, lips and tongue worshipped my body—the way he brought me to orgasms with his lips and his length.

Heat rushed up my neck to my cheeks.

Kaelric’s lips curved slowly.

"So you remember that," he murmured. "Interesting. I thought the Alpha successors might have torn my touch away from your mind."

My entire body went hot with embarrassment.

"Stop reading my mind," I snapped, folding my arms.

He smirked, unapologetic. "Then stop thinking so loudly. You know I can’t help it, you always sound funny in there."

"I... that’s not...Sir Kaelric!" I stuttered, embarrassed. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

His eyes glittered with lazy amusement. "I could always remind you how it feels when I’m inside you."

I froze, staring at him for a while, and then bit my lips, reminding myself what I was here for.

"No!" I blurted quickly, shaking my head hard enough to rattle my skull. "Not now. I didn’t come here for that."

"You didn’t?" he asked softly, leaning one hand on his desk. "Your thoughts say otherwise."

I clenched my jaw. "I came here because of Jason."

His entire posture changed, straightening, as if I had said something he wasn’t expecting me to say.

"Jason?" he repeated.

"Yes." I stepped closer. "He’s still missing. No one has heard from him except for that one vague update you shared with us. Allison was told the headmistress would handle it. It’s been days. We deserve to know something or even start looking for him."

Then sighed. "Aria..."

"Don’t ’Aria’ me."

"You are just too curious and rude at the same time," he replied sternly, and turned back to his files.

There was silence between us for a while, and I figured maybe I had burst out a bit harsher than I had intended.

"Sir Kaelric, I’m just worried. He is a student of Ashwood, and I’m responsible for them. Weirdly, he has been missing for days, and neither I nor any of the student council members know anything about him."

He looked at me, his hardened features softening. "Jason is on a secret mission."

The words landed like a punch to my ribs.

My mouth parted. "A... what?"

Sir Kaelric folded his arms. "He was the one on the phone that day. The one giving me rogue activity reports. The one who directed us to the underground chamber where Liara and Jackson were found."

My heart dropped.

Jason? That quiet, polite, awkward wolf? Who preferred to joke around. Yes, he carried out his duties perfectly as my assistant, but a mission and a secret one at that was something that put me off.

"Why?" I asked, the word almost strangled. "Why him? Why choose Jason of all people? That is really dangerous"

"Because," Kaelric interrupted, "his wolf is nearly impossible to detect. He is a scout wolf. He has been trained for this kind of mission since birth. His family worked with the military stronghold for this type of mission."

I blinked hard. "A scout? Jason? There was a lot about Ashwood and the wolf kingdom I still had to learn."

"Yes. His abilities are rare. And extremely useful."

I shook my head. "But why not send someone else? Someone more experienced? Someone like..."

"Aven?" Kaelric snapped before I even finished.

I stopped.

His eyes widened a fraction; he hadn’t meant to show that emotion.

But he had. He was probably shocked I would mention my mate.

I swallowed. "I didn’t mean I want him to go instead. I just don’t understand why it had to be Jason."

Kaelric stared at me, breathing carefully.

"You would send another one of your mates," he said quietly, "before you’d accept that Jason is capable?"

"I said that’s not what I meant!"

"But you thought about it," he said.

"I didn’t... Sir Kaelric, stop twisting my words!"

Kaelric stepped away from his desk slowly, circling to the front, his steps deliberate.

"Aria," he said under his breath, "you have a way of making me spill far more than I should. And I don’t like it."

My pulse skipped.

He stopped in front of me, close enough that I felt the heat radiate off him.

"Not because I’m under your compelling spell," he added, voice dipping, "but because you are very persuasive. In ways you don’t realize."

He took one more step.

"This thing I told you was a secret, that’s why it is called a secret mission, and now it’s no longer a secret, I have told you." he paused for a while and then continued.

"But I hope this stays between us, I don’t want to find out that this slips from you. Don’t tell even Allison. Aven should know about this, but you aren’t expected to even discuss it with him whatsoever," he warned.

I inhaled sharply.

He was too close, and his presence was so overpowering. But what I didn’t understand was that even Aven had known about this, and when I brought up the topic of a missing student, he feigned ignorance.

"Aven knows?"

He tilted his head slightly, studying me like he was unravelling every thread holding me together.

"I didn’t say that, Aria, I said that he should know, being the Alpha successor to the military stronghold."

Right there at that moment, I felt fooled. There was no way Aven wouldn’t know any information connecting the military stronghold, and right now, Sir Kaelric seems to be defending him.

"I see," I said, turning towards the door.

"It was a secret mission; he can’t spill such information to you even if he knew Aria. You are just being angry and hurting yourself unnecessarily," Sir Kaelric said.

And right there, I didn’t know whether to scream at him for still trying to defend Aven or just walk away.

So I just chose the one that was more soothing to me and how I felt at that moment, damning the consequences.