Alberto's POV
I meant every word I said to Sapphire. I hated Kael’s guts, and it stung that he had outsmarted me that way. But I was not one to keep people in prison just out of spite. Kael was still a valuable person to my forces; the skills he possessed were out of this world, and I did not just dispose of men like that. But when you are Alpha, you learn to turn off your emotions just to preserve your image.
Sapphire’s expression dropped. I hated seeing her so downtrodden, but there was nothing I could do to help—at least, not the kind of help she wanted.
"Please, Alberto," she began. "Surely there is a way..."
She let out a loud cry that escaped her lips, cutting short whatever she was about to say. I bent over her immediately, searching her face.
"What? What’s wrong?"
She shout
