The Interrogation

Silver:

The maid left, but the effect of her words remained with us. No one moved, the girls looking like they had just been bewitched with a freeze spell.

“Oh my Goddess, this is bad,” Grace said, her hands quivering.

“We're all gonna die,” another girl said, her hands shaking as well.

“Maybe he won't be so hard on us,” Mila said, although it was evident from her facial expression that she wasn't convinced by her words. “Maybe he just wants to hear our side of the story. It's the matron he should be mad at.”

The girls looked even more terrified than before. I understood their fear, but not to this level. They were talking like it was the executioner who had come for their heads and not their king. I knew Alpha Damon was pompous for his own good and exuded an aura of impatience and ruthlessness, but couldn't they see through all that like I did? Was he not supposed to be their king? To protect and provide for them.

I never had a reason to be afraid of my queen back in my clan, be