my blood-covered hands. This couldn't

her arms out in warning and defence. "Don't come any

s headed our way. Someone must have heard

who found us exclaimed wit

at me. I shook my head, but words betrayed me. Tears were th

before she tries to run away," t

right. I was too weak to. Too tired. I stared down at the body of the person I

covered in blood?" "Isn't she the same

s I was dragged to Ryle's house, covered in the bloo

urther," Alpha Ryle commanded as he

ay stopped in their tracks as the man and the

ng scratches on my arms as I tried to p

ed cold. He was an alpha now, and nothing more. He would treat th

ad killed Hilda and was laying with her body, like some sort of sick cr

rmured until Alpha Ryle put his hand

t after killing Hilda, laying t

se, Alpha," the woman reported. Sh

's eyes on me. The man and the woman who had dragged me her

t happened, and you must not tell a lie. This

on of him. I got off the ground, keeping my head

dead person is. I woke up to screams and realized that I was

wouldn't be able to make sense of it eithe

us. You can't just forget how you got there, slept, and woke up in

d, not wanting to let this go. This couldn't be follo

ened, unable to defend myself.

framed,

uld frame you for murder, of all things? This hasn't happened in the histor

d myself. I'll check out the body and if there are any other witnesses. For

down to the stale-smelling dungeon, where I was placed in

n some kind of hunt for pack members. What did she think thi

to finally gain enough voice and coura

ething is very wrong!" I called out, wal

on to the cell bars and yelping as my han

blisters and burns that had formed rather qu

nd pleading innocent. I knew it was long enough for Alph

w that it's just me and you?" His first

I was sleeping in the middle of their dead bodies. I didn't do anything then. I did

you didn't do it," he said. "I am the alpha of my pack. It's only

an I had to be sacrificed for hi

e. There has to be something that can prove my innocence. I don't remember

ook on his face. It was one I had seen one

e found yourself in the middle of somet

futilely. "There ha

o one is on your side. The investigation was concluded and found to tie

ossibly be talking about my parents. Di

ha R

athering of every pack member. The final verdict

r and vomit from the look of absol

e sentenced