Aalyan
“Terrifying?” he echoed.
“I don’t know what the hell I’m doing,” the alpha told him, putting his heart out there like it was nothing, like he wasn’t meant to hide any vulnerability for fear of it being taken advantage of. Aalyan had been a beta and even he had known showing your throat when you weren’t being made to was stupid, a sign of weakness someone would exploit... Was this what it was like when you didn’t need to fight tooth and nail for every last scrap of meat? Every good sheltering space in a tree?
His brain insisted there had to be an ulterior motivation, even as Aalyan realised there was no trick; the price he was paying was not small. He wasn’t even sure this reward was worth what he’d agreed to go through.
He’d expected the food and the nice accommodations (even if
