Chapter 141. He’s Suspicious of My Identity

Lilith POV

“If you can land a hit on me, then, Lilith, you will be our beta.”

That was what he had said. That was what I had heard as I stared at the man before me, eyes wide, breath hitched, my heart pounding so violently it felt like it might burst straight out of my chest.

Silas stood in front of me wearing a smile, one that held no amusement, unlike Claude’s.

No. Silas’s smiles were rare, and when they came, they were cold. Scary. The kind that sent shivers down my spine and screamed warnings in my head that something was wrong, that something bad was about to happen, and that I should stay far away from the man standing before me.

And even though every instinct in my body told me to step back, to say no, I couldn’t move. I just stood there, staring at him, waiting, hoping, for him to laugh and say he was joking, or that I had heard him wrong.

He didn’t. Instead, he began unbuttoning his sleeves and rolling them up, his veined hands fle