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!

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

bra refused to register that

That can't be true.

spoke a few hours ago and 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 earth

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 the floor with

We are currently doing

killed Hayley because of me. I'm the reason she

Beta Ronald on the case. I want him or her found within the next twenty-four hours."

raging mass of hormones right now.

ask him in tears. Alpha Regan calmly nods

"It is."

promise me you'll find the people who did

"I promise I will."

"Thank you."

rest my 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 felt no anger in my heart towards her

knowing I believed

thing that gives me