Chapter 85: The Alpha's Dilemma

Raul's POV: The execution was proceeding just as I had planned. A single question, a refusal, and death. It was an efficient way to thin the herd, eliminating the surplus of slaves that had become a nuisance. Their numbers were growing too rapidly, and there was another unsettling development—the females could reproduce. Not with us, of course. Only with their fellow male slaves, while none of my pack’s males could impregnate them. It was as if nature itself was mocking us, ensuring their survival. Our females couldn’t conceive with their males either. The imbalance infuriated me. But I had no intention of killing the female slaves; they had their uses in the bedroom. For now, they would live. The execution was going well, until **she** appeared—**that pig-headed slave girl**. She interrupted the execution of the boy, the one who, even I had to admit, was strikingly handsome. I wondered what their relationship was as I approached them, sword in hand, swinging it lazily as I walked. S