-Lara-
I should be able to handle this on my own. I knew something like this would eventually happen. I had provoked sixteen alphas who still preferred the old ways. Only Evan and the king, I believed, would never order something like this to occur. I didn’t know Evan well, but if he was a friend of the king and the rest of the castle, I knew I could trust him. That left sixteen—sixteen people who had a reason to want me dead.
I was certain the male who attacked me couldn’t have been Jasper. He had just left my office moments ago.
“We’ll figure it out,” I heard James say beside me, as if he had read my mind.
I looked over at him, catching a glimpse of his face before he returned his eyes to the road. Just a simple touch from him had calmed me down and made me feel safe. One… single… t
