Chapter Seventy
Thalina
He had to be joking. This had to be a terrible joke. There was no way Fenris had already found the Alpha King. No way he had figured out that Professor Maverick was the Alpha King.
I shook my head, struggling to believe it.
“You’re joking, right?”
“No, Lina,” he said, his eyes lighting up with a victorious smile. “We finally found the Alpha King. We can finish this mission and go back home—back to where we belong.”
He grabbed my shoulders, grinning from ear to ear, but there was nothing amusing about what he’d just said.
He found the Alpha King? He found Professor Maverick?
What was he going to do now? Run to Father? Set another trap to use him? No. I couldn’t let that happen.
There was no way I’d just stand by and let them hurt him. I had to protect him. I had to stand by him, even if it would be the last thing I’d ever do.
Finish the mission and go home. That’s what Fenris said.
But the truth was—I had never belonged there.
Home had
