[ZAFFUTO]
"This is what he brought on himself. This is the fate he chose when he decided to murder vulnerable mothers and children. This is his punishment, young wolf. And he will not die.
"I will not let death free him. Never," the king said, his voice cold and detached. He sounded like an executioner who was finally getting to do what he had been waiting for for years.
The king sounded like he had gone to hell and back, and if he was being honest, hell was the one destination that had carved his heart out. It had ruined him.
It had made him a monster worse than the monster he had been before Liana Nakamura came into his life.
"Please… kill me," Alpha Ashton begged desperately, his head spinning as he choked on his own post.
He was so tired.
So worn out.
So, ruined.
Hell, he didn't know he would end up like this, even when he had been watching the mad king from across the battlefield. He looked like someone who had not even gotten the very worst of what he deserved.
