Loved by the Alpha by Bella Moondragon

Author:Bella Moondragon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bella Moondragon

PREPARING FOR DEATH

*Maddox*

The sound of hammering resonates even though I’m inside looking out at the gallows that are being constructed in the courtyard. It’s been years since the last time I’ve heard that sound, and this is the first time I’ve ever ordered it myself

But I don’t feel bad about it.

This is something that has to be done, something I know will accomplish several goals all at once. It will get rid of these people who have committed horrific crimes against the crown and the citizens of my kingdom. It will show that I mean what I say when I decree that all of the packs are meant to work together toward a specific end. And finally, it will send a message to anyone out there who is thinking perhaps I am making a bad decision or that I am weak that they shouldn’t fuck with me.

That’s really the biggest message I am hoping to send, and I hope that my enemies both far and wide hear that message and ingrain it into their brains for the rest of their miserable lives.

Seth is quiet beside me, and I know he has plenty of thoughts he’d like to spew out to me, but I don’t want to hear them. He’s expressed himself already. He has concerns about the prisoners I’m not killing more than anything else.

And he has concerns about the bitch who started all of this.

“It’s just… her mother is ill,” he says, and I can’t help but reach up and rub the bridge of my nose. I have a headache. It settled into my forehead about an hour ago, and now it seems to be sinking into the rest of my head.

The storm that’s rolling in is either the cause or pure aggravation of the sharp, shooting pains. Thunder rolls in the distance, and the men with the hammers speed things up. We’ve had to erect the gallows from scratch because it’s been so long since we’ve had a hanging. They’re making good progress, though, probably because they don’t want the lightning in the west to make them the first victims of the structure meant to bring instant death.

“I understand about her illness,” I say, putting my hand behind my back and interlacing my fingers. I am trying to use this stance to appear calm but inside, I am ready to strangle my own Beta and best friend. “I don’t care. Even if she was well enough to come here to petition me the way that the families of the others have come, I wouldn’t change my mind. I’ve got three other mothers, two wives, and a granddaughter in the waiting area demanding to speak with me, and if Alpha Jordan’s Luna was here, I would tell her the same thing I told Cody to tell the others. My decision has been made. I will not be swayed. This will happen. They can choose to stay and watch as part of the crowd, or they can go home. If they’d like to have the bodies returned to them, then they can pay for that to be done.

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