DESDEMONA

Sleep refused to come that night.

I lay on the thin mattress, staring at the dark ceiling while Eddie’s words echoed endlessly inside my head non stop.

I tossed and turned on the bed biting on my nails.

The Wolf King abandoned him. His mother was locked away.

There was someone he loved once. The thought twisted strangely in my chest and I did not know why it mattered to me.

It should not matter.

Alaric was nothing more than the Alpha who owned my fate. The man who treated me like a burden he could not discard.

Still I realized something unsettling.

I knew nothing about him.

Nothing...