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 dungeon is eerily silent. I am too shocked to say anything or even cry. All

refused to register that

That can't be true.

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.

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 fall on her lifeless body lying on

"Someone managed to sneak something into her food. We

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

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

front of me. I'm a raging mass of hormones right now.

she's innocent?" I ask him in tears.

"It is."

the people

"I promise I will."

"Thank you."

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

I believed she was

the only thing that