#Chapter 433 – Debate

“It’s all of this Alpha bullshit!” Maryam nearly shouts, casting out a frustrated hand. “An entire culture of men who believe that because they’re physically bigger, and stronger, and can shift into the body of a lethal predator that it gives them the right to go out into the outlying towns and take what they want from them!? It’s –“ “Is that what Alphas really think?” Ella asks, her interruption smooth and calm, her own steady command slicing neatly through Maryam’s louder voice. “Do not misinterpret me, highness,” Maryam replies, a bit between her teeth. “The issue is not with the men themselves, but with the ideology in which Alpha wolves are raised.” “Well, you have two Alphas here,” Ella says, gesturing towards Mark and Rafe. “Why don’t you ask them what their own impulses are? What rights they believe they have to claim our bodies and possessions simply because either of them could kill any of the rest of us with barely an effort?” Rafe sighs long and slow through his no