CASSANDRA
As I fought to catch my breath and make sense of all of this, Lancel spoke up and called out to the man.
“Release the Alpha King’s wife,” he pleaded carefully, and he raised his hands as if in surrender. “We can reach an understanding, but only if you let her go-”
“An understanding?” the man scoffed, and he shook his head slowly as he held tightly onto Adalyn. “There’s nothing to understand. There’s no way you’re going to handle this peacefully. I know I’m dead anyway, so I may as well just take her with me.”
He gripped onto her even tighter still and dug his claws further into her arm. Adalyn whimpered as trails of blood poured down her skin. My eyes welled up with tears before I could stop them. This was cruel.
As much as I detested Adalyn, she didn’t deserve this.
“Do yo
