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LORD DWAYNE

"This is a ruthless world, and one must be ruthless to cope with it."

Charlie Chaplin.

He was my best and most trusted lieutenant. He could go through brick walls for me, not minding if he put his life on the line in the process. No one else knew half the things he knew about me, not even Declan or Deforest. Maybe I let him know more than he should have known.

If I could put it better, I would say my darkness laid bare before him.

So you can understand why it was the toughest decision I have ever taken as an alpha. This was even tougher than passing the judgment on my wife and having her face the execution as I watched. But I had to do what I had to do. He had broken the code, and no one was bigger than it…

Okay, maybe I was!

I may not have been so sure about what he had done, but his displays had sold him out. It felt he was up to something, something different from the path we had always walked on.

"Killing him on the night of the dark moon does not represent the best d