Xander's POV...
Getting back from the f*****g ritual of annulling the marriage of my mate to be; sometimes I wonder about the fundamental significance of some of these norms and frivolous shenanigans. They were sometimes lengthy and quite frankly unnecessary. Why can't I just annul a freaking marriage? Why do I have to go dip myself twenty times in the river?
A lot of unanswered questions.
When we walked into the jail to pick up Benedict, he glared at me miserably, I couldn't recognize him, he wasn't even the shadow of the man I knew, he looked weak and unstable. Before then, he used to look muscular and in control, he used to be my right-hand man, but not anymore.
Growing up as the Alpha's son, I knew it was my destiny to become the Alpha and so did Benedict. He also knew it was his d
