chapter one hundred fifity- eight

**POV Alpha King**

I paced back and forth in my office, my hands sweating. I looked at the picture frame in front of me, with one of the photos of Eleanor when she arrived at the palace. She was smiling beautifully, and the sun lit up her green eyes, making them shine in the photo.

"Why? Why did this have to happen!" I shouted furiously, throwing the picture frame against the wall.

The object shattered instantly, and the glass broke into thousands of pieces on the floor. Eleanor's photo was completely crumpled. Unsatisfied, I approached and started tearing it into several pieces, throwing them into the fireplace.

"Alpha... is everything alright?" my beta entered my office, staring at the mess I had made, and then quietly closed the door.

"Eleanor is different!" I muttered, sitting in the armchair and staring at the fire. "She has harbored so much hatred for me, and for a while, I understood why I sent her to the Vale of the Rejected. But I remember that, before leaving the pack, she w