Isabella POV

"Don't you ever do anything like that again," Alpha Benny said, patting my hand, his words echoing in the room like a whip as he sat at my bedside.

His voice was thick, sending a cold chill down my spine.

"That is your king's command," he said, his face blank, as his gaze hardened.

I gulped down the uneasiness in my throat as my stomach tightened into knots.

A heavy silence swept around us.

Then his tone softened with a warm glow igniting in his eyes.

I swallowed the bile ...