EIGHTEEN YEARS AGOI had one rule, never drink more than a bottle at a time. I prefered having a clear mind when making decisions, but today, I’d broken that rule.One bottle was all I'd intended to take, but somehow I’d ended up taking another, then another. I wasn’t drunk, but I was at least a bottle away from being so. Finally finding the restraint to stop, I picked up my coat and headed to my chambers.Drunkenness was not an attribute well becoming of an Alpha, especially one of my status. It was almost a shaming act, but today, I had a lot I'd rather not think about. But the alcohol didn’t give me the escape I seeked for, because I couldn’t stop thinking about him. My beta, Harold.He was the only man I truly trusted, and he was dead because of me. I wasn’t a man easily tormented by guilt, but I’d long learnt that loyalty was the rarest commodity in the market, and I'd had his. He was a man willing to die on my word and that he had.I staggered into my chambers, dumping my coat o
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