Kael
“Interesting,” I murmured, a dark chuckle rippling through my chest. “You want to be my queen?”
“Yes, my King,” she replied. Her voice didn’t waver, even under the crushing weight of my aura.
“Insolence!” Darius roared, slamming a withered, trembling finger in her direction. “You must be losing your mind, girl!”
“To think anyone can just claim our queen’s throne,” another elder sneered, leaning forward with disgust dripping from his wrinkled face. “Much less a useless thing who doesn’t even possess a wolf.”
A sharp, ragged gasp escaped from behind her veil.
I watched her closely. From the moment she had crossed my border, I knew she was wolfless. The hollow space in her soul where a wolf should have been was loud enough to hear. And if I knew, it meant my council members had sme
