Maeve
I gasped. Potent jealousy exploded in my chest, warring with shock. I wanted to wrench Cathy away from him and kill her. But I clenched my fists until my knuckles were white. Alpha Blake was playing with both of us? My breath turned ragged with pure rage and misery as my vision turned blurry. Why did it feel like I had been betrayed? I had nothing to do with him or his kingdom. I was supposed to leave the moment my father came for me. Yet, here I was, feeling like I’d been stabbed with a shard of glass wrapped in velvet.
“Maeve?” Blake said as he got up, his chair dropping to the floor behind him with a screeching sound.
Cathy turned to see me and smirked. “Can’t you see what we’re doing?” she said in a soft voice. “Could you wait outside? Alpha Blake’s busy.”
I turned and ran ba
