Most of this anxiety stemmed from the fear of what I could not control.
Would a child be a burden on him—another liability against his work? The alpha's baby, the heir, would be under constant threat. A burden they carried from the day they were born, just because of their name and blood.
In just a few days, Greece would become our home until Axel came back and the war was over. Tonight was the final gathering, a celebration as if nothing but reckoning was heading our way. I rubbed my arms, closing the book and replacing it where it belonged. I imagined all of the different personalities of Axel within those journals as the centuries passed, and I wondered if one day I'd get to know all of them.
My gown for the dinner party hung on a dainty hanger from the wardrobe to the floor. There w
