"I don't think I deserve this tone, Alaric," I said with a frown. I knew he was the Alpha, but in that moment, I stood before him as a friend—the only werewolf who saw his situation clearly and wanted to help him.
His expression remained unchanged.
"I needed to stay longer to help her."
He stood up and wrapped himself in his bathrobe, stepping out of the wooden tub without breaking his intense gaze at me, as if he were ready to pounce.
"To help her in what?"
I was eager to explain what had happened, but first, I remembered Corinna's despair as she asked me to hide the truth from the Alpha. If Alaric went there, Morgana would find out that Corinna wasn't exiled from the territory. She would refer to the Alpha's words, which stated that Corinna could be executed if she returned to the
