Chapter 112 : Axe

THEO. Ajax meets my eyes, and the fear in his gaze makes my skin ripple with cold dread. That’s the kind of fear that ignites something else. Fear from knowing that you would never be given a better choice. Fear that would give way to seeking protection from harm, to fighting, and to winning. His muscles are tense now. He keeps eyeing the armor on the floor. His eyes are also flickering at the line of weapons that the Alpha Supreme arranged before I even got here, as though he’s already making his pick. I want to mind-link him and tell him that I have no plans to fight, especially now that I know that we are bound by blood and brotherhood. But no such connection gets established. “I will give you, my son,” the Alpha Supreme says to me, “freedom that you long to have. I will free Maxine Kane, and I will let her be with you. I will let you take her as your Luna when you someday take the throne from me. You will be the Alpha Supreme with the one you love, no longer leading a small ins