The Alpha's Only Weakness
Alice said to Abigail, overriding my choice to accept her abandonment as exile.
She nodded weakly, glancing back at me before wiping the crocodile tears from her cheeks. “I hope you’ll come check on me. I missed you so much.”
As she walked behind me to the door away, Alpha Murack banged his gavel on the wood.
“This meeting is adjourned,” Murack announced, and I turned, placing my back to the council in blatant disrespect.
Yet before I could leave, Murack spoke up.
“One more thing, Alpha Reed.” I turned slowly. “Secrets always have a way of surfacing, and when they do, everyone connected to them burns.”