#Chapter 114: An Incredible Force Of Will

Wes’s POV The house is unusually quiet for this time of the evening. Conrad is at hockey practice, and Hugh is at some bar. Declan is locked away in his room. These things alone around unusual, but the house itself is still too silent. If I sit and stretch out my Alpha senses, I can hear Sylvia in her room, talking with one of her friends on the phone. Ella is in her rooms, her pencil scribbling over paper. Her parents and my mother are all already asleep. Some of the servants are having coffee, others are resting in their rooms. There’s one room that feels particularly quiet. Strange. Usually Ollie stays up late typing away at the keyboard of her laptop. She could have gone to bed early tonight… Perhaps I should check. Resolute, I leave my room and head down the stairs. I shouldn’t care what Ollie does. After it was revealed that she had betrayed us all by lying about her birthright, I had sworn off caring for her. It had been difficult at first, made easier only with the