Chapter 25

ACHILLES. At first, I thought that I just didn’t read the guard’s lips right. It’s such a strange thing to be told that you harmed someone who’s not that important in the first place, nothing more than scum on someone’s shoe. But then, it occurs to me that I might have delivered something more than just hate when I punched his face, so I sign, ‘Did I kill him?’ As expected, none of the guards understand what I'm saying. Instead of trying to figure out what I just said, they all surround me. One of them lowers his spear, taking out silver handcuffs and approaching me with them. I get ready to fight him off and take down his friends too just to get to Claudia in time, but that’s when I feel footsteps on the floor. I turn around to find Kiernan walking toward us with a bewildered expression. “What’s going on?” he asks, his face still contorted in confusion. “Why are you putting the Alpha King in handcuffs?” “He punched Alpha Hyperion and knocked him out,” the guard replies. I try t