Chapter 192

Alyssa POV

“Are you sure I shouldn’t be cooking dinner?” I ask, curled between King’s legs on the couch, my back resting against his chest. His arms wrap securely around me, our fingers laced together. His warmth anchors me—steadies the part of me that keeps waiting for everything to fall apart.

Today, I want to believe it won’t.

Those things will finally end the way they’re supposed to.

Silas, dead.

My men, safe.

My shadow daddy... quietly slipping back into the dark where he belongs.

Where he can take over as the new president of the Iron Serpents and build whatever’s left of the mess into something a little better.

They told me what he did—how he killed Bones, like he said he would. How he uncovered a plan that creepy bastard had to kill War and Logan and trade me in for the bounty, just so he could take out Silas and climb higher up the food chain.

Seriously, how many times can we save each other before we run out of c