The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 58
Third person
“I have been watching something rather interesting,” the King said. “Care to watch with me?”
Scarlet had not been surprised when she received word that her husband required her to come and speak with him urgently, knowing precisely what it was regarding. She hurried back to the palace from her office in the city and found her husband waiting for her in their bedroom, alone, with the viral video queued up on the TV screen.
g the video over and over again, alternating between fantasizing about how he would punish his Luna for her treachery and wondering what role Alexander had played in promoting the news story about her.
“I have seen it,” Scarlet responded, quiet with fearful respect despite resenting the King’s condescension.
use, freeze-framed on an image of a crying old woman. “How about once more?”
e hit play.
d not, knowing that doing so would give her husband just
second, making his wolf’s blood run warmer and warmer, and speeding his heart rate up to a hammering pace.
ht they’d treat us right. We thought the Queen would treat her people right. Yeah. That’s what we thought.”
on who’s wronged you has so much power?” she asked the old lady.
white-haired woman jus
the companies she invests in. Stop giving Scarlet your money! And don’t forget to like and subscribe for more of our—”
he King hit pause.
then pointed it at his wife. The tone of his voice was still playful as he said, “Would you care to explain what we are looking at, my dear?” The
with.”
ing with the first hint of a snarl. Hot hair hissed out from betwee
rate attempt to disgrace me – Alexander’s whore Fiona is behind it! I even heard her admit it from her own lips. Please believe me.”
wife claimed that Fiona confessed to setting it up, he paused, considering whether it could be true.
ce of an active embezzlement scheme. But there was a chance, albeit a very slight one, that Scarlet was being set up.
pise and distrust Fiona. Circumstances with his eldest son had been tense enough already, before Alexander went and impregnated a pretty young Luna from a rival pack and moved her into the palace with him.
troy me to get to you.”
” the King snapped. “Whether or not Fiona had anything to do with this, you do bear responsibility
whether she was lying.
myself.”
gray eyes were big and pleading. “You will see.”
“And do it quickly.”
fast as her driver could get her there.
the windows, and quickly set about shredding any and all paperwork she could find that could possibly be used as evidence.
was no way to save her work anymore, no way to keep hold of her ill-gotten earnings. All she could do now was shift gears into damage control mode.
ers for investigators, making it more difficult to trace where the money for all her initial investments had come from.
Because if the King ever found out her worst crime, he would not only beat, divorce, and imprison her. No, her fate would be much worse.
vampires was not an infraction
out she had done that.
even kill her in public. With his bare hands.