Ashley

The Alpha King stepped in behind him and our eyes met immediately. For a moment, everything else in the room seemed to disappear.

His gaze locked onto mine and didn’t move. Those dark eyes were sharp, calculating, the same ones that had stared at me across that ruined building when Riley had been shouting about Ryker.

My heart began to pound harder, I hope he doesn’t remember our night together, because if he does he would make findings about me and learn my parents were traitors he killed.

His presence carried a quiet weight that pressed against the air itself. Even the man who had shot me his Beta—stood...