ALPHA TOPH

I balled the half-shifted claw of my hand in a tight fist and slammed it solidly into the assassin’s staunch face and watched his head snapback, his spine bending at an unnaturally crooked angle.

”YOU'RE JUST THINKING TO TELL ME THAT YOU SON OF A FUCKING BITCH?” I bellowed into the man’s face, standing over his kneeled form and feeling the red thongs of anger worm into my eyes as I glared down at him.

Nikolai had been here in the palace after all. And riding off in the fucking sunset with my mate! It was beneath him. Cruel.

The way he had been as a child, always...