Chapter 104

Luca POV

The guard yawned and slid lower on his chair, any lower and he would be sitting on the floor. With a sigh, I looked at my watch and wasn’t at all surprised that it hadn’t even been five minutes since the last time I checked it. It had been the same the last fifteen times already – time was just dragging.

I huffed and stood up, pacing the small waiting room outside the Council chambers. I was ready to burst past the guard (not that it would be hard to do so) and announce my presence to the grumpy old men who thought that their word was higher than all else in our world. Only the king had any stand against them, and they still looked down on him because, at fifty, he was still half their age.

There was a rustling just inside the doorway and I watched with amusement as the guard suddenly shot to his feet, looking oh so useful the moment the door handle turned.

“Alpha Castello, please come in,” a croaky voice called to me as the door opened to reveal a weathered old man.

I nodd