*Fennec*
In the library, I look up and see the door to the morning room ajar. I flinch, look closer, and see a flash of yellow near the floor. Poppy has heard. She’s heard everything.
I jerk my eyes away from the door and turn back to my father.
My stupid, contemptible father.
“I don’t want to see you again.” My throat feels like it’s closing. “She heard you. She heard you. You ass.”
“Well, I said nothing that isn’t true,” the Alpha prince says, instantly defensive, swiveling to look at the door.
“She will never forgive me,” I say, knowing it in my bones.
He grins, “Given what I saw…”
I bare my teeth, and my father shuts his mouth. “We had a chance, you know. Even after the way it happened.”
“I’ve no doubt that she’ll be tetchy,” My father says. He lowers his voice and adds consp
