“I have never met someone so difficult as she!” He hissed under his breath, sitting there at his desk, still seething from the conversation that he’d had with Royce a day prior.
Silence ensued the alpha’s rant. Nabila stood in the corner, silent. She was no longer confident enough to speak her mind when it came to the alpha. He had become far more volatile over the last few weeks following Abigail’s loss and now Royce’s betrayal. Or at least that was no doubt how he saw it in his mind.
“You’ve been standing there in silence-not like you, I must say.” He remarked dismissively.
“I don’t want to speak out of turn, Alpha.”
When Nabila said this, Maquand’s brow rose, and he sat up in his chair. “You? Not speak up?” he laughed. “That’s a first!” he said with a mocking nature. “But then th
