Kali
“W-We didn’t know she was your mate, Alpha,” a warrior stammers from above, his voice shaking. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had pissed his pants. “It was Commander Gideon’s order—”
Alpha? As in Alpha Jack?
Another growl rumbles through the air, shaking the very ground beneath me. This one is even more feral. “How dare he? I don’t give a damn if he’s my cousin. No one disobeys me. I’ll make an example out of him. Go get him.”
The sound of hurried footsteps scrambling away fills the air. Darkness presses in around me, heavy and suffocating, the kind that makes you feel like you're drowning with your eyes wide open.
Then, a voice—deep, authoritative, laced with something dangerously soft—calls down to me.
“Mate, are you hurt?”
The way he says it—as if he would burn the world dow
