Husband With Benefits
Chapter 763: The Woman I love

Chapter 763: The Woman I love

"Isis! This is a pleasant surprise," Rafael said, gesturing for her to sit across from him.

Dora walked over and sat down, her eyes never leaving his. "Is it? I doubt you’ll say that when you hear what I have to say."

Rafael raised an eyebrow, settling back in his chair. "That sounds ominous," he replied, watching her closely. She simply smiled, staring at him without a word. And then continued to stare as he waited for her to continue.

He shifted in his seat, leaning forward slightly. "Are you going to sit there and stare at me? I know I’m beautiful, but I’m sure you appreciate Kael’s beauty more."

"Of course," she said tartly. "His beauty has a depth of character that I’ve recently discovered you lack."

Rafael winced, rubbing the back of his neck. "Ouch. I see what you meant about the surprise part. Was there really a need for the barb? Okay. So, Kael finally told you everything?"

The woman shot him a look as if to say, ’duh’ and Rafael almost cowered. Dam* it! He was actually older than Isis but somehow, she’d succeeded in making him feel like a little school kid being scolded by the principal. He sighed and ran a hand over his face," Okay okay. I understand that you are angry on behalf of KAel, but I really have changed, hmm? No need to look at me like I am an insect you would like to squish under your heel"

"What is your game, Prince Rafael?"

"My game?" Rafael asked, trying to stall for time. Truthfully, he had not expected such direct confrontation.

"Your game. I wondered initially why you did not refute those rumors. You even came to my office to fish about Kael’s reaction and even fanned the rumors. So what were you trying to achieve with this?"

"Achieve? What do you think?"

"Truthfully, I don’t know what to think. I liked you as a person Rafe and considered you as a friend. But you’ve tried to use me against Kael so I’m not so sure."

"I did not try to use you, Isis. I am not the one who started or spread the rumors. That is someone else. And the only reason I let things be is because I want Kael to see that the man he respects so much is the one who is tryin gto destroy everything he has."

Rafe paused and waited for her reaction and narrowed his eyes when she simply continued to look at him. "You know the source of the rumors?" He asked cautiously.

"Of course, I know. Or rather I can guess. But is the source the only reason you are letting these things happen."

Rafael narrowed his eyes then. He’d known and recognised Isis as powerful, but only as he stared at her now, unflappable and as if nothing could shock her, that he realized that this person would turn out to be a formidable enemy.

He sighed and confessed the truth," Because I want Kael to come clean."

Finally, she showed a reaction and frowned. "What do you mean?"

Rafael shook his head. It seems Isis had only one weakness. His little brother.

"He is hiding something from me about the past. Something that I need to know. So, when the rumors started to blow, I was waiting for my brother to come to me and ask me to clean up the mess. To deny everything. I actually expected him to be angry or even insecure due to our past... But it seems you’ve made him stronger. He didn’t let the rumors bother him and he didn’t try to come to confront me, leaving me no choice to let things continue."

"But why do you want him to come to you? What do you need from him? Though the two of you’ve recently tried to mend fences, things are not that bad that he would keep something from you deliberately."

"Deliberately, no. Bound by a promise. He would never break a promise."

Silence reigned in the office as Dora tried to make sense of everything. What was going on? What could Kael have kept from Rafael that would make this man go to such extremes?

"I see he didn’t tell you everything." Rafael spoke slowly as if having just come to a realization. "It seems I have underestimated my brother’s honour."

Dora frowned but said nothing as she waited for Rafael to continue, knowing that he would.

"The night that changed everything? Two people went missing that night. One was Lord Rupert’s daughter- Anna. And the other was a gold digger- Anne. Two names that are too similar, aren’t they? But one was a victim and one a perpetrator. One died, but where did the other go? Only one person seems to know- Kael."

"Hadn’t the woman who played you both been discovered in her tactics? She’d probably run away. What is the conspiracy in that? Are you looking for her because you are still in love with her or something?"

"I am not looking for her. Anne is dead. I am looking for Anna."

Dora scowled, sure her brain was short circuiting or something as she tried to understand the entire mess. What the heck was going on?¹

"Just stop talking in circles and get to the point." Dora finally huffed out.

"The point is that I believe that the woman who died that night was not master’s daughter Anna but the woman Anne. And I want to know why Kael is hiding her from me and the others!"

"How can you be sure?" Dora asked slowly.

"Because I know my brother! If he’d really been responsible for Anna’s death, even indirectly so, he never would have been able to stand upto the master. At least not in the past! So, there could be only one of the two explanations. One, he was not responsible for her death. Or the second possibility was that... Anna was not dead."

The last words, said with such hope made Dora narrow her eyes at him.

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