ROMAN
Her face was instantly drained of colour. I couldn't help but wonder what was going through her mind. When the filthy creature from earlier had spewed the words from his blood-stained teeth in desperation, I'd allowed myself to think he was only lying.
Then he dared to ask me to confirm it from her. I slit his throat after, of course.
No one gets to humiliate my person in front of me and lives to tell the tale. People will assume he randomly disappeared. The smart ones will figure out that I'd struck again.
"I...I—"
Solana dropped to her knees in front of me, her head hanging low. "I didn't mean t-to hide it. It doesn't m-mean anything. My w-wolf has been suppressed for a long time."
Every stammer that left those precious pouty lips made my chest tighten.
Well, she didn't apol
