Finn
I mind-linked the guards immediately. My voice was cold steel through the bond. “Remove the intruder. Now.”
I stood against the bathroom wall, letting the cold shower water wash over me, hoping to calm my mind. Anger still pulsed through me, causing my hands to tremble.
No one had ever dared to challenge me in my own territory before. The retribution I delivered was quick and decisive.
A knock at the door barely registered over the pounding in my head.
“Come in,” I managed through gritted teeth.
“Alpha,” the guards’ voices echoed from the other room.
“Take the body beyond our borders,” I ordered. “Let the rogues deal with it. A fitting end for such treachery.”
“Yes, sir.”
Later, a maid entered to clean. I barely noticed, lost in a haze of fury and betrayal. The treacherous at
