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!

the door. The ride to the dungeon is eerily silent. I am too shocked to say anything or even cry. All the color has drained from my face and I look like a ghost. Hayley is

to

That can't be true.

mess, but only because she had been crying. She didn't look

a guard leads us to the hallway that leads to Hayley's 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 fall

sneak something into her food. We are currently

because of me. They killed Hayley

Ronald on the case. I want him or her found within the

He stoops in front of me. I'm a raging mass of hormones

I ask him in tears. Alpha Regan calmly

"It is."

me you'll find the people who did

"I promise I will."

"Thank you."

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 felt no

I believed she was

the only thing that gives