Chapter 5

Alpha Killan’s heavy brows drew together in a thunderous shadow as he stared down at Alpha Cameroon and the woman beside him—Cameroon’s wife—who both trembled under his gaze. The grand hall of the Killan estate, bathed in soft violet lantern-light, felt suddenly fraught with tension. Servants paused mid-step, crystal glasses in hand, as a silence thickened the air. 

“Pardon, Alpha Cameroon. What did you just say?” He asked, hoping he had heard his own words.

“To repay the loan we took from you two months ago, I would like to offer my daughter Camilla to you as a mistress.” You are quite drawn to her, right? “You couldn’t pull your hands off her.” Cameroon grins like someone who is offering something major to the alpha of alphas.

Killan pressed his lips into a thin line. He studied Cameroon’s confident stance: straight-backed, placid face, but for the swe