The Alpha King's Human Obsession
"The letter. The abduction. Even the scout who so conveniently spotted me at the gate and lived long enough to report it. Alaric wanted you here, my king. Desperate, reckless, exactly where he needed you."
The boots pounding down the stairwell grew louder, and Marlowe's mind raced through everything Torren had just confessed, every carefully placed piece of a trap they'd walked into with their eyes wide open. "Why," she demanded. "Why go to all this trouble instead of just attacking the palace directly?"
"Because a king who dies defending his walls is a martyr," Torren said. "A king who dies chasing a human woman and her friend into a trap he should have seen coming is a cautionary tale. Ala