Chapter 45. Take Her

Lucien POV

“You guys need my help, but apparently your brother wants to kill me. Haha, you’re some hosts, aren’t you?”

Those were the words that

rang in our heads as Silas and I sat in the study, half-buried in paperwork.

It was Verya who had spoken, and neither of us gave much of a reaction.

Claude was the laid-back one between the three of us, the outgoing man, unlike Silas and me. He rarely lost his temper, but when he did, he never thought twice about ending a life.

But as we stood there in the wolfless girl’s room, the problem wasn’t that Claude had Verya dangling at the edge of the window, his hand clamped tight around her throat. No, what made the air turn cold, what made Silas and me fix our furious stares on Claude was that the bastard had done it again.

We’d told him not to visit the girl tonight, not until Verya left, but like the idiot he was, he never listened. Just like he never did.

The evidence was plain the mome