Helen POV
I backed up further against the far wall, watching the Alpha King every carefully. “What—What are you talking about?”
He snickered a waved a hand in the air, as though in dismissal of my concern. “Relax, Luna, I’ve got it all figured out. I can’t possibly kill me son! What kind of Alpha King would I be? But his own mate, defying the bond and killing her Lycan mate—that is very news worthy.”
“I would never!”
He shrugged. “You have no choice.”
I could see movement behind him, a force that wasn’t a wolfen that I could recognize. His scent was strange but also familiar in some ways. I watched him approach the bars, one hand stretched through and into the cell.
His fingertips burned bright yellow as they casted out in my direction.
My throat felt like it was being pinched, my
