The Alpha I shouldn't crave
The council had accepted my explanation with varying degrees of skepticism, but none of them pushed too hard, afraid of what they might uncover if they looked too closely at the monster living among them.
Now I sat alone in my hotel room, the treaty negotiations finally concluded, free to return home but finding reasons to delay.
My phone rested on the desk, Sandra's contact information pulled up on the screen, and I'd been staring at it for the past hour.
My thumb hovered over the call button, indecision paralyzing me, because what the fuck would I even say?
'I just killed twenty-three people to protect you and enjoyed every second of it.'
'Some dying wolf said you'd be the end of me and I