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“Mel!” I yelled out, walking around the armory and offices for my ranked warriors. “Gamma Meldec!” I roared, getting fed up with looking for him.

I want to get rid of Cedric so I can get back to my wife. His very presence is grating on my limited nerves.

“Do even your commanders hide from you, Alpha?” Cedric muses, “My princess and her handmaiden must not be the only ones.”

“Fish pond,” Killian repeats, “Better yet, just give him a damn trough. The horses will share.”

“I could just put him six feet under,” I tell my Lycan.

“Oh, I like that idea even better.”

Killian and I were lost in my head for a moment, snickering about all the degrading places we could shove our merman guest, when Meldec finally appeared walking out of the warrior's lodging.

“There you are. Where the hell were you?” I growled.

He looks up in surprise, eyeing Cedric for a moment, freezing in his tracts before shaking his head and looking back at me.

“Alpha. I was just sorting out a dispute in the dorms,” Mel sa