The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 23

Alexander had been right. Having to watch this was punishment enough for me. Especially knowing that he was taking extra punishment to spare me for my own imagined crime.

I watched in silence, not letting my face or behavior reveal how shocked I was, as the King used every ounce of wild strength that he had to lash Alexander’s back into a meaty mess of blood and tattered bits of fabric. I straightened my spine and did not avert my eyes, though my heart was pounding out of my chest, and my wolf wanted to make me shift and attack.

With every snap of the whip, the King tore into Alexander’s broad shoulders and muscular back, sending spatters of blood all over the room. Alexander’s long, golden hair was wet at the roots with sweat and at the tips with blood that started out bright red and darkened to black as it soaked in more and more liquid with each passing minute.

because he finally stopped, grunted with exertion, and threw the whip to the side, leaving Alexander’s fresh blood on it to dry into the seas

en to be true.”

let nodded frantically in acknowledgement. Her chin w

t was the first thing I’d been able to say since being down here in this nightmare place.

my arms at my sides, and they released me. He said nothing to me. Didn’t even look in my direction. Just stormed over to his wife and grabbed Scarlet by her slender throat, clenching it roughly in one big hand and dragging her, choking, with him out of the room. The guards were all then gone in the next second behind them.

arms around me, almost knocking me over in a hard, desperate hug.

Alexander

treachery. That’s what he would call the way she publicly defied my stepmother.

. My father didn’t spare anyone from a punishment he saw them as deserving.

re mine.

her, especially since I wasn’t giving them my full attention.

s, I would do better at that. I needed to keep Fiona strong.

ve on. Someone was going to pay for this scene. That much was undeniable. It was also undeniable that my father and stepmother wanted that someone to be me. They’d been looking for an opportunity to take me down

easily.

y mouth felt like it was lined with sandpaper.

na moved to

Fiona ducked under my arm and caught me just as I was about to fall. I reached for the wall and st

s stronger than I had been giving her credit for. She held up my entire body weight to stabilize me, and that’s not an insignificant sum.

king at the wall. Her words were cold, but her tone was less so. I couldn’t be sure, but it almost felt lik

ing them tight around her waist, and bringing my face close to hers.

yself. And the promise I made to her, that I would not push her to kiss me, no matter how bad I crave

dy release, and she silently withdrew her hand.

med me and I pressed her mouth open with my tongue, then filled her wet, mint and lavender flavored mouth with it, stroking the roof of her mouth

, her lips… all I felt was her touch.

ust next to hers for one last second. The tiny space between our mouths hummed with the dueling vibrations of our hot, heaving breaths.