Kael
Sleep never came.
I'd known it wouldn't the moment I stepped out of the car and watched Dionne walk into the castle ahead of me with her jaw set and her shoulders rigid.
I'd done the right thing. I knew that. I'd turned it over repeatedly for hours, examining it from every angle and it held up each time.
The murder of an Alpha by two servants couldn't go unanswered, regardless of the reason behind it. That just wasn't the way things worked in this part of the world.
Someone had to pay for it and if I had let them both walk, the outrage would have been immediate and catastrophic. Not just for Aubrey, but for me.
Aubrey had insisted I executed the both of them. She had gone on and on about how this incident could ruin everything we've worked for if I didn't make them pay with enough evidence to satisfy the nobles present.
She was sure this was going to ruin our reputations forever.
