CHAPTER 76 (THE CURIOUS CAT)

ANNA'S POV

I stood waiting for Xavier just where he had instructed me to wait for him. I felt so minuscule under the towering building and the massive clock that hung on it.

There was a time when I would not have agreed to be left alone by him, especially at a place I knew nothing about because I would have suspected that he would leave me and go away but there was this amount of trust I had grown towards Xavier.

I did not know when it had started growing but I knew it was there.

And so I waited for him with the hopes that he would come for me.

My mind kept on wandering back to Abigail. I had suspected that there was something between the both of them the time I had first seen her in Alpha Lartes' throne room. but I could not place my finger on what it was. Today, however, my questions as to who she was to Xavier were answered.

I had seen the way he looked at her. She had been more than just a friend to Xavier. There had been something between them.

I did not want to admit it to mysel