The Making of a King
Alpha Jacobs says, jumping in front of Atticus, looking the most concerned.
"Healers, get Atticus to medical. Atticus, if we had known you were under orders, you wouldn't have been whipped. We thought you had done this of your own free will," Alpha Patrick says as he too moves closer to Atticus's now panting form.
"Don't feel bad, Thurman. He made sure I was uneducated for a reason. He made me a brute instead of a scholar, so I didn't know his tricks could be broken. Stop fretting like an old woman. I am used to it. Pain is all I know," Atticus tries to joke, and Karina flinches for an entirely new reason.