I glanced at the knife that fell on the floor briefly before raising my head to look at him. “My apologies. I didn’t know that it was....”
I didn’t find the words to complete my sentence. I was so embarrassed. He was the Alpha of the River Ash pack. I was a servant of a clan he ruled. I was meant to serve him no matter how cruelly he treated me. I would never think of killing him. I was just frightened and tried to...
I held my forehead. My head aches now.
“You tried to kill me, human. You tried to kill the Alpha of River Ash, me?” Ryder asked, then laughed.
“No... I didn’t intentionally do that, it was a reflex. My apologies,” I bowed my head slightly as he was still holding my wrist in the air.
The room became quiet as he stared at me with a line on his forehead. “You stole fruit?”
