Aleida POV
Everyone is gone; only my pack members are left. The mood is tense, and everyone is ready for a brawl at any moment. It doesn't matter how many times I tell them not to interfere once King comes to take me. I know they're going to fight for their queen and alpha anyway.
Although I wish they wouldn't. I've ordered them not to delay the inevitable, but not that they can't fight. There are limits to what I have the right to command and not. Denying them the right to protect what they consider necessary is such permission I can't take away from them.
My greatest and final desire is that they ultimately choose to protect themselves instead of me. Considering it's a dead-end when it comes to me anyway. I must be the one to take down K
