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Alpha King Ozar.

I didn’t kill them but I did torture them. They will be left to die in the dungeons until they give me the answers I need about Magnus. I didn’t tell Yeri that because I don’t have a reason to. I don’t see a reason to give her attachment to these bandits. I would have never said anything to her if she didn’t come in here, asking questions that I do not owe her.

Those men deserve death and it will come sooner. So, I might as well tell her that they are dead. The advisors have taken their leave and she is still on the floor, sobbing.

“Get her out of here.” I whisper to the guards and she grabs a hold of my ankle, her fingers digg into the leather of my boots.

"Why?" she rasps, her voice is hoarse but laced with a steely resolve.

"Why didn’t you grant them mercy? Why did you have to slaughter them?”

I tower over her like a storm cloud and I am momentarily taken aback by her. Surprise flickers across my face, but it is quickly replaced by a hardened mask. I yank my foot