you, Pawl.” I stood and walked toward the door.
“Wait! What? Where are you going? You said you’d let me go! You can’t leave me here!”
“I said I wouldn’t kill you. And I won’t. But you are a threat to me and mine. Did you really think I would let you leave? To run off and warn your father? Your grandfather?”
He blabbered like a fool, begging for his mother, for the guards, for anyone to come save him. I was not a cold-blooded killer, but I could not let him go. Not yet. Not until the queen was found and my mate was out of danger.
I should simply slit his throat and be done with it. But he didn’t deserve such an easy death.
No, he deserved to suffer.
I pointed to the vid screen and his eyes flared wide. I’d gotten what I needed from him. I typed in my commands and the data was sent to the palace, specifically to Leo’s father, the head of the royal guard. “You’ll be fine until the royal guards show up. It might take some time for them to figure out where you are, but you’ll be alive. For now. But it is a centuries-old tradition on Alera to execute traitors.”
“Wait! No!” He howled as I closed the door behind me with a very soft click.
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