Chapter 80.

I stopped reading and looked up at the men sitting in my chairs, drinking my scotch while their Guards fucked the girl I paid for.  “If you keep reading we will kill them,” Rhys snarled.  “If I don't keep reading they will kill her,”  Rhys and I were well aware of the reputation we had and what people thought- all of it was true. I was not the person you wanted to see in battle, it’s much like seeing the reaper, there is only one way for it to end.  But not with them, not with Hazel, I couldn't negotiate with her life and I made sure that whoever could would be forever plagued by their decision. Alpha Emanuel was a prime example, he bought into the game and torment thinking it was I who pulled the strings; all in exchange for a patch of dirt. Of course, I needed to play my part and so I offered it to him with one last stake, that he make Iliana his Luna, the person who’d rule beside him and join him in all of his affairs. Alpha Emanuel would have to spend the rest of his life with that