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 about. I had suspicions

only a bulb light

seen the man in

said, distain dripping from his voice like poison. “What the hell more could you possibly want from

shock wore off Julian much faster than me.

said. “Before Piper gets hurt.”

did she? I imagined she would. It was only my lust for the girl that kept

Her. Off,” I said now, adding an Alpha threat into my

and then laughed – loud and hard and mocking.

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

though the mockery remained in the patronizing lilt of his tone. “She is higher up in the underground organization

freeze, the words slicing through me.

Terry to the underground, his admittance had been rather recent. More recent than

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