14. Get Whipped

Jessamine

There's a ruckus in the castle.

Someone stole a diamond bracelet from Lady Helen's room. She's raised an alarm and the guards are searching room after room.

I watch them scurry about the hallways, yelling and barking orders. Alpha Kier is gone from the castle, visiting the borders. There was a rogue attack in one of the villages, I heard. Two dozens injured, no deaths.

The attacks started two years before Alpha Kier's father was sentenced to his brutal death, and they haven't let up ever since. A group of people who were wronged by the previous Alpha King pulled quite a number of lone wolfs from here and there, all with the same vendetta, and created a pack of haters.

Their chosen Alpha, King of the Rogues, Atticus, used to be Alpha Kier's godfather, his father's best friend and Beta.

I'm unsure of the details since I gained most of my knowledge from kitchen gossip, but it's a whole messy story.

I can't say I'll miss Alpha Kier. He broke my fingers last night. Bending