Chapter 0305

“It’s not a fault to be dependable,” I said.

“It is if it makes you immovable. You have to be more willing to be wrong.”

I closed my mouth and glared at him. As usual, my sharp looks seemed to bounce right off of him without taking hold.

“Come on,” Julian began walking. He didn’t look back, expecting me to fall in line behind. him. Damn him, I needed to, for Piper’s sake, so I did. “We can’t keep our dear uncle waiting.”

Together, Julian and I walked out of the palace and toward the guard barracks. In the basement beneath their facility was a type of prison. Julian jokingly called it, ‘the dungeon,‘ though that title wasn’t far from the truth.

It had been built long ago and though lighting and plumbing had been added later, it still maintained a certain level of castle dungeon aesthetic: thick stone walls, iron bars, chains on the walls. The interrogation rooms were once torture rooms, though no torture took place

now.

At least, none that I was privy to know about. I had suspicions though.

was kept in a special cell at the end of the long, narrow hall. His cell was dimly lit, with only a bulb light on the ceiling in the middle of the stone room. Terry’s hands were

him like this. I’d never seen the man in such a state of disarray.

distain dripping from his voice like poison. “What the hell more could

off Julian much faster than

off Jane,” Julian said. “Before Piper gets

head back against the wall. “Jane went for her head, did she? I imagined she would. It was only my lust for the girl that

I said now, adding an Alpha threat into

me incredulously, and then laughed – loud

hell is so funny?” Julian asked sharply. He was losing his patience too, it

mockery remained in the patronizing lilt of his tone. “She is higher up in the underground organization than I

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me. Jane is…?

welcoming Terry to the underground, his admittance had been rather recent.

at a young age. She’d had more time to rise in their ranks.

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