Azriel: Walking Into The Trap

[Azriel]

The text comes just after Aysel leaves. I have been anticipating something like this. After all, I have been warned. Denzel Knight has already informed me that I am to expect such excellent treatment from the present alpha king.

However, I had expected something during the coronation and not before. When the texts come from my mother, whose number I had gotten hold of after returning to the palace. I was glad she used a mobile phone, which… made her even more real.

[I am not well. Maybe introduce me some other day.]

It might seem normal to others—a normal text from a mother to her son. But I knew my mom, even if she wasn’t able to spend the majority of my life with me. She would never shy away from confrontation. She would never… say she is ill and if she is really, she doesn’t show it until she is collapsing.

Which is why I knew that this was not what it looked like. She was in danger maybe? The mere thought had made me spur into action and after leaving a small note on the