Seraphina's POV
We locked eyes for what felt like an eternity, but he was the first to break.
He pulled his hands back and straightened up, looming over me in the chair. His deep brown eyes bled into a predatory, glowing wolf-gold—the Alpha's "lie detector" gaze.
I felt the weight of it slamming against my mind-link, trying to tear through my shields.
'Lily, stay cool,' I hissed internally. 'Don't let him feel how much you want to bite him.'
Lily let out a wounded whimper but retreated into the shadows of my consciousness.
I kept my face like stone.
"Just a rough couple of nights?" Mortimer asked, his voice rasping.
I went stiff for a second, then gave him a sharp nod. "What else would it be?"
He didn't say a word. He just stared, his heavy gaze making the air in the room feel lik
