Chapter 83

Ariezel

I had never expected those words to leave his lips.

Gasps came from all around me. Looking around, the shock was evident. Even Alys had lost her composure, mouth agape and eyes widened.

I turned back the wheels of time in my head, recalling what Asher had told me all those months ago about his past. The ringleader of the people that betrayed and killed his parents and plotted to kill him as well was none other than the former Beta of the pack. Since then there had been no Beta and although Ambrose worked and fulfilled the similar duties, he wasn't titled

And there was power in a title, especially one as monumental as a Beta. I knew it firsthand from the powers my father had. Not only was there respect attached to it, but it gave a higher status and most of all, showed a level of trust with the Alpha of the pack. It might as well be baring one's back with the trust of it being protected in return to the view of the entire world. It was something so solid that Ambrose couldn't c