Chapter 40.

Starci POV.

That little bitch. She knows of the gathering. If she arrives there and goes to the Alphas, they will be pissed, not at her, but at me. I know word would have spread about what I have done, but I need their help.

I went against a direct order not to attack the Phoenix Kingdom. Fools the lot of them, they were scared of Marcia’s wrath. But I needed to take the heart scale so I could use it to defeat the Alphas and become the top dog, so to speak.

But that plan failed yet again. Now I have no choice but to grovel on my belly like a stray dog. The Alphas will love that. They have been hunting me for years, but I have always managed to evade them. Now I need their help.

“You won’t be able to lie to them Star, they will see through it. It’s best to tell them the truth, otherwise they will kill you,” Lex says in my head as I watch Jaka and Bedelia fly back to the Phoenix Kingdom.

“They could try to kill me on site. What we did was treason.” I say as I sit on the floor and think