Washed clean

Shane

“I look forward to seeing the future you create,” Alpha Joshua said.

Whatever motivated him to make this decision, whatever made him so willing to lower himself and offer me my birthright as if it were something simple, something small like a cup of water, it mattered not. Too many time has passed and many things had changed since I’d left. Not only here, but with me. I could not take any chances, nor would I be made a fool. He had already declared in front of all of these people that I was the next heir.

I was the Alpha.

He admitted defeat.

I take one last step forward and it brings me right in front of him. We’re face to face now. I extend my claws and in the next breath, I slice his throat open. Their are shouts of anguish, gasps of shock, and the dropping of women’s bodies as they faint. His eyes widen as blood spurted and splattered across my face. He releases the crown and it drops to the floor with a thud. He blinks and makes a gurgling sound as his hands come up to his t