Chapter 12: Alpha's floor
ARIEL'S POV
I finally breathed out once Alpha Viktor walked past us and into the main house. The last few minutes had been a storm of emotions—confusion, fear, sharp anger, the urge to slap an alpha’s mouth shut, and so many more.
Goldie this, Goldie that. Don’t breathe, don’t blink. He even forbade me from looking down when he spoke, and I didn’t understand why. It was supposed to be the opposite.
Rhyder hated it when I stared straight into his eyes during a scolding. He said it was disrespectful. But here was another cold alpha demanding the exact opposite.
Even though it was annoying, it made me feel strangely... important. Like I wasn’t less of a human. Like I wasn’t beneath him.
Alpha Viktor was... too unpredictable. One moment cold as ice, the next st
