THE ALPHA’S DEBT
"Fine! Assault and murder, is it? Today you’re going to witness some real combat spirit!"
I grabbed his arm, panic rising in my chest. "Carllo, stop! You were the eight-time pit-fighting champion, undefeated across the Silver-Oak borders! If you strike her, you'll snap her bones like dry twigs. Remember that rogue you paralyzed for provoking you? You were an adolescent then and avoided the High Court. Please, keep your head!"
Carllo turned to me, looking completely baffled. Was he really that lethal?
Then he caught my drift. He grinned menacingly, a predator finding his rhythm. "Let go! I need to teach this flea a lesson. If the Council comes, the Monroe bloodline will back me!"
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