Grace of a Wolf by Lenaleia

Chapter 15

Chapter 14: Grace: Sent Back

By evening, I’m still alive—but now I don’t want to be.

The man’s an absolute psychopath.

Psycho. Path.

Since when does "go straight to the source" mean waltz into the middle of the grand event welcoming the fucking Lycan King?

And, even if that is what it meant—which it isn’t—what madman throws a bound and gagged woman to the floor in the middle of the room?

Him. That’s who.

My skin burns with everyone’s eyes on me, and I know my face is redder than a tomato. Everyone can see the state I’m in, and there isn’t a single friendly gaze in the bunch.

The meticulously decorated event hall is gorgeous, filled with random, expensive-looking floral arrangements. Everyone in the pack is here, from Alpha and Beta down to the lowliest omega; the main lodge is the only building on pack lands large enough to handle a crowd this size.

There’s a long table at the front of the room to seat the guest of honor and his party on one side, and Alpha and other high-ranking wolves of the Blue Mountain Pack on the other; it’s a standard seating arrangement.

Several Lycans already sit there, leaning forward with interest, but the Lycan King’s seat—next to Alpha—is empty.

And Alpha...

My heart sinks at the look on his face.

jaw clenches so tight, a muscle twitches beneath his skin. A vein

is the meaning of this?" His voice comes out low, controlled—the kind of control that precedes

A whimper escapes through the gag, and I find myself missing my betrayer wolf friend. He might

tightens on my arm, and I can already tell they’re leaving bruises. Though that’s the least of my problems right now. "I thought you might want to explain why a human smells so much like your pack,

drains from Alpha’s face at the challenge, and he bows his head in a show of submission I’ve never seen from him

I should have informed you

such deference... So this

pack attacked her family when she was young." Alpha’s voice softens with false sympathy. "We found her

wide open from the gag in my mouth.

us, causing no trouble. Until recently." Alpha’s eyes

scrutiny burns through me. "You

kept her separate from pack business, taught her to be useful." Alpha spreads his hands. "What else could we do? The human systems would have failed her. We raised her as well

rises in my throat. All those years calling him my adoptive father, believing he cared about me, only for

she runs." The king’s voice carries notes

When those proved

Now he’s making my relationship with Rafe sound dirty and twisted. I search the crowd for Rafe’s face, though my field of vision is limited

be sitting at the main table. Instead, he stands with Ellie, who looks positively gleeful over my predicament. His expression

The king’s voice is so bland, I can’t tell what he’s thinking. Then again, he’s clearly insane. "That you’d

throat bobs. "We’ve always strived to be merciful when

my cheek as he does so. The rough fabric scrapes against the

tongue feels like sandpaper, and I work my jaw

into mine. "Is what he

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