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.

least, none that I was privy to know

special cell 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 hands were bound in shackles. His hair was messed, his

like this. I’d never seen the man in such a state of disarray.

said, distain dripping from his voice like poison. “What

off Julian much

Jane,” Julian said. “Before Piper gets hurt.”

her head, did she? I

now, adding an Alpha

and then laughed –

so funny?” Julian asked sharply. He

lilt of his tone. “She

me. Jane is…? How could that

the letter welcoming Terry to the underground, his admittance had been rather recent. More recent than Jane, from what Piper

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