Chapter Forty-one
Thalina
Hide the knife under my dress, play the perfect obedient servant to the Alpha King, wait until he’s distracted, and then stab him. Or maybe slip a sedative into his drink, wait for him to pass out, and end him while he sleeps. Simple enough, right?
Wrong.
I snapped my eyes open, grounding myself back in the cold reality that nothing about this would be as simple as I wanted to believe.
Father always thought everything was easy—everything except me. To him, I was lazy, irresponsible, too soft to do what was needed. He was wrong. It wasn’t that I couldn’t; it was that I shouldn’t. Yet here I was, with a knife hidden beneath my dress, about to prove him right.
The Alpha King.
The greatest ruler of them all. The one whose voice alone sends shivers down the spin
