CHAPTER 10: Beneath The Palace
The door of the study clicked shut, muffling the sounds of passion as Caelen sought oblivion where guilt and Selene’s memory warred. Outside, a young maid scurried away with her mind already spinning the scandalous tale she would share in the kitchens at first light.
But in the deep and silent veins of the palace, beneath the stones that held the foundation of the palace itself, a different kind of story was unfolding.
A hooded figure moved with a predator’s grace through the cold, dank tunnels. He didn’t need a torch, his path was a map etched into his very soul. He knew these twisting passages better than the King’s own guards, better perhaps than the Alpha King himself.
He finally stopped where the tunnel forked into three different directions, a sile
