★Nuel's POV★
I didn't sleep well. I couldn't sleep well. Not with Alpha Noca in the next chamber after mine. Not with the weight of his presence pressing through the walls like a silent threat. Not with the thought of what he might have done if I dared close my eyes for too long. Would he kill me? Behead me in my sleep just to finally end what he saw as a nuisance? It wouldn't be hard for him to do. Especially now that I was slowly becoming a threat to his authority in his own pack.
"The court requests for you," the warrior repeated again, his voice cutting through my fog of exhaustion as I sat up, my head spinning.
I blinked slowly, letting my gaze drift around the chamber, pretending to study my surroundings when in truth, I was making sure I was still whole, with my limbs intact, no blood pooling and with no missing vein or bruise I couldn't recall. Only when I was certain that I was complete did I rise.
