Pure terror flooded my veins, pushing me to the floor. The suffocating dominant power radiating from Fredrick crushed whatever little courage I had left, forcing my body into immediate submission. I pulled Toby tightly against my side, trying to shield him behind my frail form as I bowed my head, staring at the floorboards.
"Come here," Fredrick said.
His voice was dead calm, and that only made the panic worse. Whenever Alpha Victor had spoken to me in that quiet, eerie tone, the following punishment was always twice as brutal. Defiant out of sheer survival instinct, I shook my head and took a frantic step backward.
A heavy frown marred his handsome features. "I said, come here," he growled, his large hands clenching into fists at his sides. His dark eyes flared with an untamed rage. "D
