The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 117
Alexander
The sun was just starting to set when I reached the pit. The men down at the bottom of it looked truly miserable.
They were hot, thirsty, tired, hungry. Covered in dirt and dried mud. I could see marks on the walls of the trench that told me they’d done their best to try to scramble up and out during the hours I’d been keeping them down there.
their heads and fell to their knees.
a time.”
before I told them to send someone up and braced myself to pull.
ressed them as a group.
w soldiers?”
even of you are on notice. Are we clear?”
not leaving this spot until I know exactly what went down while I was away.”
ut then one man spoke, his head still
r men still silen
of them talking. To remind them how serious I was about all this.
nessed the altercation from seven different points of view.
were here with us on the hillside.
ird per
hadn’t heard back from Donovan yet. Waiting for him in radio silence, with no idea when he would summon her or where he would demand to meet when he did… it was
nothing to offer the vampires yet, though she had sure acted like she did. Her old “friend” Donovan was not going to be happy if she showed up empty
How to deal with her lazy, poorly tempered son, how to convince him to make something of himself… that had always been a puzzle. One she’d put off solving for a long time.
pped… Lucas had a critical role in this story she was writing. He was going to have to play it out whether he wanted to or not.
palace for now.
limited visual access, at least.
n the King Pack to conduct themselves more professionally. But the entire pack had left the palace grounds together one evening, and didn’t return until near sunrise the next morning.
ity.
yard where Alexander and his pack trained. All over the hallways where he and his pregnant girlfriend resided.
l the footage to look for anything that might be useful.
ter view of what was going on there, she minimized the other camera feeds and full-screened the one that was facing directly out across the field where Alexander and his men often exercised.
iant length of rope slung over his bare chest and a small pack of dirt-covered men trailing be
ollowing behind her stepson.
hat was one of her spies
artrate spiked.
m administering some sort of punishment upon this small group of soldiers. The men looked broken, beaten
get in touch with her spy soon. See what this was about. Hopefully it was something entirely unrelated to thei
s on the surveillance cameras, her pulse only thrummed faster and faster.
use she loathed Alexander. Was enraged at the mere sight
truth was that she was afraid of him. Very afraid.
her. In fact, he seemed to want her even more during periods of time like this when they were fighting intensely.
he other hand…
stronger than his father. And a more accomplished killer. And, most importantly, he despised Scarlet. He had no reason to show her any mercy, if he ever got his hands on her. And that was even without knowing the worst of what she had done to him