Chapter 0305

“It’s not a fault to be dependable,” I said.

“It is if it makes you immovable. You have to be more willing to be wrong.”

I closed my mouth and glared at him. As usual, my sharp looks seemed to bounce right off of him without taking hold.

“Come on,” Julian began walking. He didn’t look back, expecting me to fall in line behind. him. Damn him, I needed to, for Piper’s sake, so I did. “We can’t keep our dear uncle waiting.”

Together, Julian and I walked out of the palace and toward the guard barracks. In the basement beneath their facility was a type of prison. Julian jokingly called it, ‘the dungeon,‘ though that title wasn’t far from the truth.

It had been built long ago and though lighting and plumbing had been added later, it still maintained a certain level of castle dungeon aesthetic: thick stone walls, iron bars, chains on the walls. The interrogation rooms were once torture rooms, though no torture took place now.

to know

at the end of the long, narrow hall. His cell was dimly lit, with only a bulb light on the ceiling in the middle of the stone room. Terry’s

blinked, seeing him like this. I’d never seen the

visit me,” Terry said, distain dripping from his voice like poison. “What the hell more could you possibly want from me?”

off Julian much faster than me.

Julian said. “Before Piper gets

went for her head, did she?

now, adding an Alpha

laughed – loud and hard and

the hell is so funny?” Julian asked sharply. He

you are, thinking I have any say over what Jane does.” Terry’s laugh ebbed, though the mockery remained in the patronizing lilt of his tone. “She is

through me. Jane

looking back, I supposed it made sense. Per the letter welcoming Terry to the underground, his admittance had been rather recent. More recent

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