Chapter 16
Ben pushed open the door of the fight club. He had been with this club for a long time, and he knew his way around. Countless times, he had asked himself why he stayed in one place for so long. Every single time, the answer was Alyna. He didn’t like that answer.
He had been a rogue before she’d introduced him to the club. And she had been more of a rogue than he was. Did anyone question her background before she joined Amaraq? he wondered. Probably not, because she was at the highest rank, just under Pukak.
He would never forget the look on her face when she found him at the dumpster years ago. They’d both been teenagers at the time, but Alyna had already achieved a decent rank in Amaraq. People told him she had climbed up the ladder quickly though she had joined not long bef
