Diana pouted, clinging to his arm. "Alpha Edgar, you gave your word. You said I could reward her."
He glanced at her coy expression, then at me, still kneeling, blood seeping from my forehead. His voice was cold. "Take her away. Send her to Henry now."
"Alpha Edgar!" My desperate cry was drowned out by the den's music.
"Please… please…" My voice faded to a whisper, my lips moving soundlessly.
Alpha Edgar turned away, downing his wine in one gulp.
The enforcers dragged me off, binding me and tossing me into Henry's filthy shack.
In the dead of night, I lay tied to a rough bed with coarse rope, my back's wounds still bleeding, staining my clothes red.
Henry, hearing Alpha Edgar had gifted him a she-wolf, abandoned his work and burst in, leering. "Don't be scared, little she-wolf," he
