Chapter 23

• The sound of shattering glass pierced the air, followed by a heavy thud. A man had been hurled against the wall, and now he lay crumpled on the ground. "Incompetent!" Aiden, the hulking red-eyed rogue, bellowed in fury, tossing another man against the wall with ease. "You were supposed to find her, and you couldn't even do that!" His voice was full of rage, his eyes burning with fury. The men cowering before him said nothing, their eyes downcast, as if they were afraid to meet his gaze.
• "How dare you return to me with such pathetic news? What do you mean you can't find her? How can she have suddenly disappeared? And then you are telling me all those sent to recover the artefacts from those alpha's house also died?" Aiden yelled and punched the last person standing in the face, his claws grew as did his anger as he thought about all the resources he had wasted to finally have the winged clan treasure in his palm and the Eye of the Moon that the queen desperately wanted.
• How dare they come back to tell him that they couldn't find a weak servant from the winged clan? "Master Aiden, we were close to getting the orb but we were intercepted by the vampires that were attracted by her blood!" A middle-aged man who had led the raid explained and earned a glare from the red-eyed rogue king.