Helio’s POV
“And there’s the matter of the levies to the south. They’re failing, and we don’t have the funds to repair them.”
The weight of boredom settled over me like a suffocating blanket as I sat through another mind-numbing meeting with my father, Drake, and a host of advisors and Alphas. They’d grown more whiny, I was sure of it, or more desperate, but they were all the same problems: there wasn’t enough money, people were leaving, and the Alphas were looking for a reason to stay in their positions when the benefits were running out so quickly.
For a moment, I wondered if the Alpha that Asha had been forced to marry was anything like this. I supposed not since he was the Alpha of the village nearest the castle. I glanced around at them. Were any of them as irritating to my father
