Lucian’s POV
My world has been nothing but darkness for the past eight years. But I have learned to see with my ears, my nose, and the skin on my arms.
I heard the guards take hold of the great crank. The wood of the rack groaned as they pulled the upper iron handle into rotation.
"Alpha! Please!" Kael's voice rose higher. "I didn't have a choice! She said—”
"Who?" I walked forward until my shadow swallowed him entirely. "Tell me her name, Kael, or I will have them turn the roller until the joints in your shoulders part ways."
"Lady Elira!" Kael screamed. The name came out of him in desperation as the guards laid their hands back on the iron lever.
"She met me by the northern stables last night! She gave me the blade. She promised me a hundred silver pieces and a place for my famil
