Chapter 86

Alisa~

It took hours to clean up the bloody aftermath of the man's torture and death. Afterward, I was left sour and aching, not to mention the nausea that continued to crawl up the back of my throat. I had caught whiffs of dead bodies before, almost always animals, and the people that did die before me—I never had the cause to stay there for too long. But not today.

Today, apart from having to witness a Gamma from an allied pack of my brother's pack die a horrible death, I had come to learn what dead bodies truly smelled like. It smelled just like an animal carcass but with a saccharine stench, a sickly sweet kind that filled your senses and made your eyes sting. It made bile rise in the back of my throat.

But the dungeon had to be spotless if I wanted to keep my head. The maids here were replaceable, and there was no excuse for work done poorly, only punishment. Broken fingers and slit throats were never off the table. I reached for a bloodstain near the Gamma's dead body. Then he m