The Alpha’s Obsession with the Rejected Mate
There, I meet someone seated and smoking a pipe.
He is huge, with a big head and only one eyeball, the other socket scarred and empty. He gets up when I walk in, stretching a hand for a handshake and introducing himself with a croak voice that sounds like gravel under boots.
“I am Jiro—Alpha of the Grimwards.”
Then he says, puffing another cloud of smoke, “Lucian had told me a lot about you, and I must admit we share a lot in common.”
I look up at his face and ask him, my voice hoarse but steady, “And what commonness do we share?”