The Lycan King’s Second Chance Mate by Sumi

Chapter 0110

"Ashanti." I'm once more jabbed out of my thoughts by his deep voice. I drag my gaze in his direction.

"Alpha Reagan."

"News just reached me that Hayley has been found lifeless in her cell." His words sink into my ear and travel up to my brain for interpretation.

Hayley.

Lifeless.

In her cell.

Horror spreads through my body like poison.

"What?" I shriek. My temperature shoots up to a hundred degrees. Hot sweat rolls down from my temple to my chin. My body is trembling.

"Hayley is dead." He repeats the sentence in another way. My knees finally give way and I drop to the ground like a sack of potatoes. I am weak and lifeless like Hayley's body back in her cell. "No," I whisper. "No, that can't be true"

"I'm going to see for myself. Do you want to come with me, or stay here and gather your thoughts?"

Thoughts be damned!

to the door. The ride to the dungeon is eerily silent. I am too shocked

bra refused to register

That can't be true.

yes, she did look like a mess, but only because she had been crying. She didn't look sick. She didn't look like she was hurting somewhere. How on

cell. "Ashanti." Alpha Reagan calls, looking at me with so much concern in his eyes. "Are you sure you're in the right mind to see her dead body?" I don't answer that question. My legs carry me to Hayley's cell and the moment my eyes

was poisoned." A guard reports to Alpha Reagan. "Someone managed to sneak something into her food. We are currently doing all we can to trace that person." "Hayley," I call, stretching

killed Hayley because of me. I'm the reason she had to die so

culprit, get Beta Ronald on the case. I want him or her found within the next twenty-four

in front of me. I'm a raging mass of hormones right now. I don't know

I ask him in tears. Alpha

"It is."

the

"I promise I will."

"Thank you."

head on his chest and cry my heart out. He doesn't tell me to stop. He gently rubs my back and gives me reassuring words. The only thing that gives me peace right now is the fact that I told Hayley I believed she was innocent of this crime. I

died knowing I believed she

thing that gives me peace right