THE ALPHA KING'S MAID
Malik remained standing before the black glass, hands clasped behind his back, expression of a man who had just received perfectly clear instructions.
He turned toward the door.
“Bring me the warlock,” he ordered.
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Soren arrived dragging his feet and carrying a satchel full of clinking vials.
He was small, hunched, with skin the color of old wax and mismatched eyes — one gray, one yellow — both too large for his narrow face. He wore layers of dark cloth that smelled of burnt herbs and something deeper, older: the olfactory signature of Dark Realm magic.
He was neither vampire nor demon nor wolf.