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.

the table. His jaw clenches so tight, a muscle twitches beneath his

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

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

the woods." The man’s grip tightens on my arm, and I can already tell they’re leaving bruises. Though that’s the least of my problems right now. "I

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

I should

For Alpha to treat him with such deference... So this psychopath really is the Lycan

her family when she was young." Alpha’s voice softens with false

forced wide open from the gag in my mouth. Lies spill from Alpha’s mouth, smooth as

causing no trouble. Until recently." Alpha’s eyes narrow. "When she began

through me. "You took in a human child, Brax?" There’s a warning underlying his words,

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 as we

All those years calling him my adoptive father, believing he cared about me, only for him to speak

runs." The king’s voice carries notes of steel.

those proved impossible, she fled rather

search the crowd for Rafe’s face, though

ranked high enough to be sitting at the main table. Instead, he stands with Ellie, who looks positively gleeful

again, he’s clearly insane. "That you’d risk harboring a human all these years, purely out

bobs. "We’ve always strived to be

mouth, his fingers scraping against my cheek as

and I work my jaw to

into

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