Esther’s POV
I had angered him now. And that was a bad thing.
He was going to punish me for speaking as I had. He wasn’t going to allow me to insult him that way.
My heart racing, I began to back away, but he followed me. He was too fast for me, and I couldn’t dodge to one side.
My back hit the wall, and I gasped as he crowded me in. If anyone had come upon us then, they would have seen two people in a supposed intimate clinch.
The fact an Alpha King was doing it with someone who wasn’t his chosen Luna wouldn’t have raised any eyebrows.
I had wanted to scream, but I had known nobody was going to come to my rescue—not after what I had just said.
“Look at me, Esther,” he snarled.
I couldn’t. I stared at a point on his chest.
We were in a place where we could be found, and I was terr
