Chapter 22

[FLASHBACK]

“Holly! Is that—”

My focus was on the potatoes I needed to buy for tonight’s dinner when Melinda, one of the servants who was a close friend to me pulled me into a corner and hit us behind a tarpauline. It was already four in the afternoon and the market was a little busier than an ordinary day in the pack. Maybe because the winter season was coming and people had to ensure they had enough supplies before the cold season embraced this land with its frozen touch.

“What are you doing, Linda? We don’t have much time to—”

But I saw what I saw and it was Alec with his huge smile walking in the streets of the Ivory territory, drunk and with a beautiful woman at his side. The lady seemed a little older than him and it was disgusting to watch that Alec enjoyed being treated like a baby with that random woman.

“Who do you think the lady is?” Melinda asked, her voice so low that it was almost hard to hear, “I can’t believe Alpha Alec could do such a thing in Master Randalf’s territo