I really didn’t want to talk to the Alpha King. In fact, I’d been trying to avoid him as much as I could since he almost had me killed that one time.
That had been easier to do when he seemed set on avoiding me too.
But right now he was reaching out. If I ignored him purposefully, my head could be right back on the chopping block. I couldn’t risk dying and leaving my girls alone.
So I picked up the phone.
“Alpha Damien here.”
“Alpha King Benedict here,” he replied. Whether he was mocking my standoffishness or appreciated it, I couldn’t tell. With Benedict, I never had the best read of the man.
“I assume you have received your invitation to the Alpha Ball,” he said. “And I assume you’ve noticed it will be held at the capital this year.”
I hadn’t looked but that was fine. They could
