He loosened his pressure on me a little, but he didn’t let me go. What he did do was lower the weapon. That was an enormous relief, although I wasn’t completely free. I would have liked to have enough breath to scream at Alexander not to risk fighting that monster, but—
“Don’t talk as if we were animals. I’m not a beast like you,” Alejandro growled.
“I am not a beast, I am a hunter,” the lion clarified. “And you agreed to be my prey.”
“Then let it be only between the hunter and the prey. Isn’t that the only thing that matters to you? You said you wanted my skin and my flesh. Come and strip them off my bones if you can defeat me. If I am an animal, as much as you believe, then you don’t need any hostage to put me in the mood.”
The white wolf’s tone was cold as an iceberg. The cold had r
