Xerxes watched as Emily grew uncomfortable. She couldn't say the reason why she was here and wanted to talk to him in the first place.
"Do you want to know what Eros and I were talking about?" Xerxes knew his guess was right. He could see how Emily became even more nervous and to cut off the conversation, she was about to put him back to sleep, but the former alpha spoke something that caught her attention. "He was asking about his mate's past."
Eros had never told Xerxes that Zuri was his mate, but a cunning person like Xerxes, even when you asked a simple question, he could conclude some information out of that.
Asking a question to him was akin to explaining yourself and your motives, especially when Eros visited him so often.
"What?" Emily couldn't mask her surprise, she looked at the former alpha, hurt evident in her eyes. "What do you mean?"