Eight

WHAT IS MY FATE?

AVERY'S POV

Sweat mixed with a putrid odour is what I smell right now. I have been sentenced to death by Nicholas. His father, the alpha hasn't said a word about it because he isn't around but what less do I expect for being a betrayer? Of course, I'd be killed. They are biding their time to get me killed. I experienced the death of someone they killed by hanging when I first got here. According to them, he was an intruder. Will that be my fate too?

I imagine the rope snuffing life out of me just the same way that young man's life ended.

I am sitting down in this dark room. After Nicholas found out, he ordered the guards to take me to the dungeon for prisoners and my hands were tied.

I have been here ever since. Maybe they are waiting for their father to come back. I have never seen the alpha before. He must be meaner than Nicholas definitely. I pray for him not to come back early from the hunting expedition.

They sometimes go for weeks to the forest to hunt. Then