Malakai
My beta shrugged. If I hadn’t known him so well, I might have thought he was nonchalant. “It’s hard to say. Rumours like this spread like wildfire. But I thought you should know—it could complicate things."
Complicate things. That was an understatement.
This was a f*****g threat to everything I’d worked for, everything I’d built as Alpha. If people started doubting me, seeing me as some sort of anomaly, it could lead to unrest, even rebellion.
Hybrids weren’t exactly embraced; they were seen as unnatural and unpredictable.
“What are they saying, exactly?” I demanded. The council might use this as an opportunity to punish me. Who the hell had brought this s**t up? It might as well fast-track my arranged date with Natalie since she was a pureborn.
Conrad’s gaze was sympathetic
