Alpha Ethan
I expect him to fall down to the ground, unconscious, like the guards did in stories my mother would tell me as a child.
Instead he grunts, then turns to me. The mild confusion on his face quickly turns to anger.
I stagger back, dropping the torch.
“What’s going on?” he says, his face reddening. “Have you... lain with him? She who lies with a beast—”
The alpha darts forward and breaks the man’s neck, then shoves him aside.
He holds out his hand.
I suck in a deep breath.
I’m doing this to help my kingdom, I tell myself. Not because—even with blood on his shirt cuffs, and dirt on his face, and one of my guards, dead, at his feet—he is looking at me with kindness.
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